Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

We're all watching each other, so there's no chance for censorship. The main problem is the idiot TV. If you watch local news, your head will turn to mush.