It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.

It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears.

It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage.

Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.

Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.