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.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

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

The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

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.

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