He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

When you die, they can make you into diamonds now. It’s scientific. That’s how I want to be remembered. I want to shine.

Nobody died. how can you kill an idea? How can you kill the personification of an action?" "Then what died? who are you mourning?" "A point of view.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

I walk across the dreaming sands under the pale moon: through the dreams of countries and cities, past dreams of places long gone and times beyond recall.

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

Everything in journalism is about the detail that makes the whole, the attempts to reproduce speech patterns while not actually quoting the whole thing the person said.