your not alone, Tally. Don't pretend you are

I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.

Becoming pretty doesn't just change the way you look," she said. "No," David said. "It changes the way you think.

People only worry about the uncanny for about a week; that's the end of their attention span. After that, suspicions turn into shtick.

You’d best ask the lady boffin, sir,” Newkirk said. “Midshipmen aren’t allowed to have opinions.

I used to be a pre-industrial writer: thousands of words in a spurt and then a few days off. But as I get older, I've switched to a mode best described as 'slow and steady wins the race.' Basically, I write during the same four hours every day, after breakfast and the all-important coffee, generally in the same room and wearing the same pajamas.

Sometimes, the hardest thing was doing nothing.