If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

the Real-World was a sprawling mess of a book in need of a good editor.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

Literary detection and firearms don't really go hand in hand; pen mighter than the sword and so forth.