"See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. 'It's mine."

That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.

It's turning out to be a bad day, a day when the sun feels like teeth.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

[I]t may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering.

I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.