Members of the Academy are mostly urban people. We are an urban nation. We are not a rural nation. It's not easy even to get a rural story made.

Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

Certainly on the vast windy plain, there was plenty of nothing to be looked at.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

But the English are different, and they don't know how to be other than different.