These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our differences, you assume we have none. But make no mistake: even same-stem fabricants cultured in the same wombtank are as singular as snowflakes.

For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed.

clocks in disagreement are worse than no clock at all.

To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom.

Dreams are all I have ever truly owned.