Duty without love is deplorable.
Rebus was eating breakfast in the canteen and wishing there was more caffeine in the coffee, or more coffee in the coffee come to that.
You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might be black Plasticine, the castle balanced solidly atop it a skewed rendition of crenellated building bricks. The orange street lamps are crumpled toffee-wrappers glued to lollipop sticks.
At all times, think like a writer, and keep those antennae twitching - that way, you pick up new ideas.
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.
I still think most writers are just kids who refuse to grow up. We're still playing imaginary games, with our imaginary friends.
Changes in solar activity have influenced what has been called the "conveyor-belt" circulation of the great Atlantic Ocean currents over the past 240 years.
Pain can be washed out with a song. Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.
The American doctor possesses a combination of conservatism and. . . an eagerness to know what it is really all about, in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.
Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.