I say, if you're going to eat a creature alive, you have to expect some screaming. That is the carnivore's burden.

I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever.

Everything we make in life, eventually, is sold for a dollar or a penny or given away.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I really wouldn't censor myself. But because it was on such a slower scale, I would throw things out, and I indulged the personal stuff as little flashes of truth. Little in-jokes for anyone who was paying particular attention.

We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a problem, but if they find a leader - a Captain Caveman, if you will - we'll be facing an even more serious problem.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.