You don’t want to ask after the health of anyone, if you’re a funeral director. They think maybe you’re scouting for business.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

Birds are the last of the dinosaurs. Tiny velociraptors with wings. Devouring defenseless wiggly things and, and nuts, and fish, and, and other birds. They get the early worms. And have you ever watched a chicken eat? They may look innocent, but birds are, well, they're vicious.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

This is how you do it: you sit down at the keyboard and you put one word after another until its done. It's that easy, and that hard.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about them never hurting, and I could use them if I had to.