You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that's going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.

The pen is mightier than the sword ... if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

You can't remember the plot of the Dr Who movie because it didn't have one, just a lot of plot holes strung together. It did have a lot of flashing lights, though.