Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

Actors, said Granny, witheringly. As if the world weren't full of enough history without inventing more.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

Night poured over the desert. It came suddenly, in purple. In the clear air, the stars drilled down out of the sky, reminding any thoughtful watcher that it is in the deserts and high places that religions are generated. When men see nothing but bottomless infinity over their heads they have always had a driving and desperate urge to find someone to put in the way.

Some shadows are so long, they arrive before the light.

Two types of people laugh at the law: those that break it and those that make it.

Man just went past with a cat on his head.