Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators absorb bogons, letting machinery work again.

I don't want to permanently damage myself! On the other hand, a couple of days off the keyboard tends to make things somewhat better.

We are Bay Aryans from Berkeley: prepare to be reengineered in an attractive range of color schemes for your safety and comfort!