You can't die with an unfinished book.

The second mouse gets the cheese!

... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.

There's no such thing as writer's block. That was invented by people in California who couldn't write.