Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.

You can't be stop. Reach out for your dreams.

Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.Things turn out best for those who make the best of the way things turn out.

All good balls to hit are strikes, though not all strikes are good balls to hit.

I also became a vegetarian when I was 14 because I realized eating animals was cruel.

Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.

You become what you believe.

It's a god-eat-god world.

Customers must trust an organisation and its people.