How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Every writer has to write his speech.
Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.
A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.
My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.
I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.