Style is made up of whatever an author can't avoid doing.

I don't know why people would want to have lunch with writers. I've eaten with writers. We have appalling table manners, and rarely say anything other than 'Pass the salt' or 'If you're not going to eat that, can I have it?'

Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.