Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an action is through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire let run, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It can only be dynamic.

If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.

All isn't well with the world.

Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead