It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

Something in your voice tells me we approach the question of remuneration.

Empathize with stupidity and you're halfway to thinking like an idiot.

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also the aura of one who knows time is on his side.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

My point has always been that, ever since the Industrial Revolution, science fiction has been the most important genre there is.

I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

I've always loved Scotland, and I'm not a huge fan of big cities, to be honest. I like them to dip into for a bit, but I'm not sure I would want to live in one again.

In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.

The greatest treasures are invisible by the eye but found by the HEART. For where your treasure is, there your heart would also BE

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian.

I feel very strongly that clothes that fit well make a person feel better. It's maybe half the value of the merchandise.

In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders.

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.

I realized I’m not supposed to be pursuing impact, I’m supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.