Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem

Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.

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

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance

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.