Something went klunk. Like a nickel dropping in a soda machine. One of those small insights that explains everything. This was puberty for these boys. Adolescence. The first date, the first kiss, the first chance to hold hands with someone special. Delayed, postponed, a decade's worth of longing--while everybody around you celebrates life, you pretend, suppress, inhibit, deprive yourself of you own joy--but finally ultimately, eventually, you find a place where you can have a taste of everything denied.
David GerroldThe single most important lesson of effective communication is this: Focus on clarity. Concentrate on precisions. Donโt worry about constructing beautiful sentences. Beauty comes from meaning, not language. Accuracy is the most effective style of all.
David GerroldTrue genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.
David GerroldThe avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.
David Gerrold