Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

Mostly I sit at home in the evenings watching the box and hoping that one day I'll evolve into plankton.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year