To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

The third stage was the reaction that came when the body struggled to compensate for its ills - when, for instance, the white count not only returned to normal but increased to much higher than normal levels.

The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons, and talents as materials you can mine, assay, and fabricate for profit and defense.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.