I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard's bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

I learned to write by writing.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.