I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.

I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

Swim or sink live or die survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

... passion for survival is the great theme of women's poetry.

The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting!

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is the lack of regard toward animals. Maybe because they're thought to be soulless.

It is a ludicrous statistic plucked out of the air and used to justify a quite appalling attack on many of the poorest people in this country.

The good news is that the president gets another chance. The bad news is that he'll be two weeks older.

We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

We see in colour all the time. Everything around us is in colour. Black and white is therefore immediately an interpretation of the world, rather than a copy.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.