Really, when you get to know him Ike’s OK. I mean not grouchy or anything and not too bright. I mean OK for a general – you wouldn’t want him to be President or anything like that.

D’ye know the Black Swan, East India Dock Road?’ Troy shook his head. ‘Bloke found dead in his room. Blood all over the place. Door locked from the inside. A real Sherlock Holmes-er.

The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.

The increased intensity of these kinds of extreme storms is very likely to be due to global warming,

I didn't find any temporal paradoxes that I couldn't handle, ... It's a very enjoyable thing to do, to jump time and play around with characters you've already established.

This is a unique and timely opportunity to build ecological networks in developing countries that will allow ecologists there to tackle some of the world's most pressing environmental problems, such as climate change, soil erosion and invasive species.

It produces no visible plume from the stack, ... If the city is successful here, it's going to be a huge thing for the future.

It's a bad process, ... It takes forever.

It would be a major shock to this community to lose golf entirely,

If this makes the climate loonies in the States realize we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation,