When, in the third book, we do learn the identity of the Blue Rose murderer, the information comes in a muted, nearly off-hand manner, and the man has died long before.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

My first real breakthrough collided with the last months of Callaghan's Labour government, which had every intention of enjoying my success as much as I did.

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

An average working day begins at 8 or 9 am, includes an hour for lunch, and ends at 5 or 6 pm.

I had a connoisseur's... appreciation of fear.

Food shortage will be to the 1990's what oil shortage was to the 1970's.

I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.

Why do we make so much of knowledge, struggle so hard to get some little skill not worth the effort?

Don't hold grudges; it's pointless. Jealousy too is a non-cathartic, negative emotion. .

My parents used to say faith wasn't something you could pretend about. It wasn't real unless it looked like faith and acted like faith.

I love to kind of people watch; that's part of what I do as an actor and creative person and sort of step back and watch others.

There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.

Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

Part of leadership (a big part of it actually) is the ability to stick with the dream for a long time.