Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

Nora Roberts is cool.

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

The simple truth of things is that bad dreams are far better than bad wakings.

He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail a hug, in the same way that closing a big business deal may call for a handshake.