Here is a les­son in writ­ing. First rule: Do not use semi­colons. They are trans­ves­tite her­maph­ro­dites rep­re­sent­ing absolutely noth­ing. All they do is show you've been to col­lege.

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe.

Farewell, hello, farewell, hello.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.