Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.

He is by nature a vegetarian but would never consider giving up meat.

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.