Ka works and the world moves on.

American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.