Keys show up when you reconcile yourself to the bus.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

The sky is like a monochromatic contemporay painting, drawing me in its illusion of depth, pulling me up.

Becoming a father made me much more interested in the parent character in my novels. I've never found parents that interesting.

The pure and simple truth Is rarely pure and never simple. What's a boy to do When lies and truth are both sinful?

...It was nice to spend time with someone so interesting.