Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
It takes a special kind of person to fight back.
Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what’s the point MY POINT EXACTLY.
The enemy isn’t men, or women, it’s bloody stupid people and no-one has the right to be stupid.
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.
The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I’ve got Alzheimer’s.
As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book, wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.
By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up after them.
Anyway, just because you’re sworn enemies doesn’t mean you can’t be friends, does it?
I must confess the activities of the UK governments for the past couple of years have been watched with frank admiration and amazement by Lord Vetinari. Outright theft as a policy had never occurred to him.
Just because you’ve got a mind like a hammer doesn’t mean you have to treat everyone else like a nail.
Real education happens when you pick up a fact here, and another fact there, and put them together and get an insight.
The Battle of Koom Valley is the only one known to history where both sides ambushed each other.
Science fiction is fantasy with bolts painted on outside.
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
Words are the litmus paper of the minds. If you find yourself in the power of someone who will use the word “commence” in cold blood, go somewhere else very quickly. But if they say “Enter”, don’t stop to pack.
Sometimes, the best answer is a more interesting question.
You have to have really wide reading habits and pay attention to the news and just everything that’s going on in the world: you need to. If you get this right, then the writing is a piece of cake.
The significant owl hoots in the night.