As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in which I will spend my life, every single one, that is the seminal event of the history that we will experience.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow.