My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.

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

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

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.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!

A world full of Love, Light & Laughter. Its time has come. Let's make it happen.

The dictionary feeds me daily, thesaurus always adds the gravy, big words I bite, so very tasty.

Yeah, I read history. But it doesn't make you nice. Hitler read history, too.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

I don't enjoy watching people fail, but I don't feel sorry for them when they fail crossing my path, that I love.

The user's going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.