What happened?" he demanded. "I heard an explosion!""Yeah.That was me. I set the boat alight.""What?""I set fire to the boat.""But we're on the boat!""I know.

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school.That's why they become politicians.

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

I have more to say than Hemingway, and God knows, I say it better than Faulkner.

The censors don't bother with fantasy books, especially old ones. They can't understand them. They think it's all kids' stuff. They'd die if they knew what The Chronicles of Narnia were really about.

Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve around these suns in a manner similar to the way the seven planets revolve around our sun. Living beings inhabit these worlds.

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.

The relationship between talent — a term loosely applied to those who work on-air — and management is uneasy, at best.

Research can be a big clunker. It's difficult to know how you can make the historical light.

Most burning issues generate far more heat than light.

Is there a God? If not, what are all these churches for? And who is Jesus' dad?

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.