Most of my scars are not fire-related and I no longer say 'I know what I am doing' at critical moments.

Until recently baby production was largely dependent on slave labour; as soon as women are allowed to answer the question 'Would you like to squeeze as many ob…

If there's a stack [of novels to review], the unpromising stuff goes at the top and the promising stuff goes at the bottom. That way, I am eager to finish Over…

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.