The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.

The tiger will see you a hundred times before you see him once.

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

What other creature, besides the lion, the tiger, and the whale, can answer Creation in its own language?

Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.

He realised that in a town a man cannot live as he wishes, but as other people wish.

When a precious secret is collected It tends to glow in the darkness. Placed in daylight, fitted along a wide landscape of fact, it often loses its brilliance.

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans!

If a woman is poorly dressed, you notice her dress. If a woman is impeccably dressed, you notice the woman.

I am a Doctor. A.B... M.A... PH.D... ABMAPHID! Abmaphid has been variously described as a wasting disease of the frontal lobes, and as a wonder drug. It is actually both.

Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!

There are few more powerful tools for promoting stability than the institution of marriage.

You have to change your life if you’re not happy, and wake up if things aren’t going the way you want.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.