I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.

I express preference for a chronological sequence of events which precludes a violence.

You need to believe in things that aren't true. How else can they become?

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ... Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from - hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.

I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.