Space corridors

"You needed them coming out of the waves, or out of the caves. You didn't need them walking slowly down a white, futuristic corridor."

"The [Nabataean] king holds many drinking bouts in magnificent style, but no-one drinks more than 11 cupfuls, each time using a different golden cup. The king is so democratic that, in addition to serving himself, he sometimes even serves the rest."

"Unless you have a viral short story in 'The New Yorker', you don't get to do a short-story collection."

"In 1888, in the period when the Ripper Murders took place, there was another series of killings in London known as the Thames Torso Murders or the Thames Torso Mystery and that's not been solved, either."

"You look at them now and they're really quite dull. You've got silly character classes that you'd never use, and quite staid dungeons and monsters."