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….

Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which ….

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….

In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a ….

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

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to just let fly with a high….

The inspiration comes from everywhere, from what I grew up with. There's so much silliness and nonsense in the world that we regard as normal working….

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

We were developing a machine that used egg white, heat and sugar to synthesize methanol when a power surge caused an implosion. Owens was meringued. ….

Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous..

[from the television show,"Evade the Question Time"]At the end of the first round, I will award three points to Mr. Kaine for an excellent nonspecifi….

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….

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

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….

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

There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!.

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

This is our siblings of more famous BookWorld Personalities self-help group expalined Loser (Gatsby). That's Sharon Eyre, the younger and wholly disr….

DCI Horner's advice to Jack Spratt: "Remember, m'boy," his old boss had said, eyes twinkling, "that if anyone tries to get the better of you, stand u….

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….

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