A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.
Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action.
Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.
Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.