Also, I've already won all the awards.

Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

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

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.

Night was spreading slowly around the spinning Earth. It should have been full of pinpricks of light. It was not. There were five billion people down there. What was going to happen soon would make barbarism look like a picnic - hot, nasty, and eventually given over to the ants.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.