The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

In a novel, you can always go back and make it look like you knew what you were doing all along before the thing goes out and gets published.

Whatever's happening," she said, eventually, "it can all be sorted out." She saw the expression on my face then, worried. Scared even. And she said, "After pancakes.

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

There may be a parallel between woodcuts and radio; radio plays are a living art form everywhere except the USA.