Anticipation! It occurred to him that his anticipation was more pleasant to him than the experiencing.

Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.

When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies

How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

The justice I have received, I shall give back.