I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find.

Where were we?" she said. "Getting credit," I said. "What about it?" "Well, it's nice to get credit." The spokes of her rear wheel spun behind the curtain of her long skirt. She looked like a photograph from a hundred years ago. She turned her wide eyes on me. "Is it?" she said.

Or maybe you’re merely uncomfortable with uncertainty. Like the rest of the human race.

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.

Live today like there's no tomorrow!