Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted..

Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions….

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair, so surpri….

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the loca….

To espresso or to latte, that is the question...whether 'tis tastier on the palate to choose white mocha over plain...or to take a cup to go. Or a mu….

The universe always moves from an ordered state to a disordered one; that a glass may fall to the ground and shatter yet you never see a broken glass….

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point..

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take not….

Death, I had discovered long ago, was available in varying flavors, and none of them particularly palatable..

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations..

Love and magic are like oil and water--they just don't mix..

The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the….

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas..

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception..

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good - and we all know how rare that is..

For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct..

Reading, I had learned, was as creative a process as writing, sometimes more so. When we read of the dying rays of the setting sun or the boom and sw….

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you..

What’s the opposite of déjà vu, when you see something that hasn’t happened yet?” “I don’t know—avant verrais?.

I suggest we depict penguins as callous and unfeeling creatures who insist on bringing up their children in what is little more than a large chest fr….

I didn't set out to discover a truth. I was actually sent to the Outer Fringes to conduct a chair census and learn some humility. But the truth inevi….