You know what I'd really, really like? What I'd pay MONEY for? A ZX81 with a disc drive. I understood the ZX81. It was so easy to interface stuff to it.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.

I like being a writer.

You had to deal every day with people who were foolish and lazy and untruthful and downright unpleasant, and you could certainly end up thinking that the world would be considerably improved if you gave them a slap.

These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.

I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it's in the blood.