Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

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.

Anger is a super weapon given by god...with a catch...the more you use it the less effective it becomes.

It's all about money, not freedom. If you think you're free, try going somewhere without money, okay?

Great influencers attract others.

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.

You need to be careful not to over-reach and also assess the capacity you have to work with.

The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.

When bond prices fall, interest rates soar, with painful consequences for all borrowers.

I want to be crazy forever, even when I'm 80

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.