Real life doesn't have to be convincing, but fiction does.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

The moonlight was enough. It would do.

I was a book-y child. I was much more book-y than dark.