Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

Bird and bear and hare and fish, give my love her fondest wish.

And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it.

For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.