In this world only the paranoid survive.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice.

I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

The hard rain nailed the night to the city.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse