Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.

Our time here is brief, our risk enormous. Don't waste the one or increase the other, if you please.

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.