You going to be a scientist when you grow up?” That sort of question deserved a blank stare, which it got.

The Specters feast as vampires feast on blood, but the Specters’ food is attention. A conscious and informed interest in the world. The immaturity of children is less attractive to them.

He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally, ' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

A few minutes after he arrived, Lee was talking to a group of astronomers eager to learn what news he could bring them, for there are few natural philosophers as frustrated as astronomers in a fog.

She shook her head and whispered, "No. No! That can't be true. Impossible!""You think things have to be possible? Things have to be true!

And then I met this girl.” He paused, his fingers finding mine in a tight squeeze. “And she made all my dark corners light

When you are facing the wilderness on your own, you have a totally different attitude to someone who works in government or who has a monthly cheque.

If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

Evolution crawls to imperfection. It ends in extinction.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

We must remember, elections are short-term efforts. Revolutions are long-term projects.

Our editors, I'm afraid, have come to believe that the photograph is an end in itself. They've forgotten that the photograph is only the subsidiary, the little brother, of the word.