It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where and how a story ended.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and self-abuse and self-aggrandizement and self-deception and pompousness and self-righteousness and cruelty and indifference beyond what any other species has demonstrated the capacity for, which is the capacity for all the above.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

He also knew that rivals are best unmanned by being ignored.