Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.

For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

There's a but, isn't there?" said Coraline. "I can feel it. Like a rain cloud.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

Suppose we pick a name for him, eh?" Caius Pompeius stepped over and eyed the child. "He looks a little like my proconsul, Marcus. We could call him Marcus." Josiah Worthington said, "He looks more like my head gardener, Stebbins. Not that I'm suggesting Stebbins as a name. The man drank like a fish." "He looks like my nephew Harry," said Mother Slaughter... "He looks like nobody but himself," said Mrs.Owens, firmly. "He looks like nobody." "Then Nobody it is," said Silas. "Nobody Owens.