Right, my phone. When these things first appeared, they were so cool. Only when it was too late did people realize they are as cool as electronic tags on remand prisoners.

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.

It's true that stammerers can become more adept at sentence construction.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

Yay, Old'uns' Smart mastered sicks, miles, seeds an' made miracles ord'nary, but it din't master one thing, nay, a hunger in the hearts o' humans, yay, a hunger for more.