People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

That's the trouble with living things. Don't last very long. Kittens one day, old cats the next. And then just memories. And the memories fade and blend and smudge together.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

What about volcanoes?" "What about them?" "All that lava comes up from center of the earth where it is all hot. I saw a program, it had David Attenborough, so it's true.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.