"The dictionary doesn’t have individual contributions. It’s like building a cathedral. The workers are unknown. But on…"

"How I began to write is different than how I became a writer. They are two different things. Many people write but th…"

"They were human beings who had a life, who had a lineage, who had parents, who had children, who had lives. They were…"

"Imaro exploded. "Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?""

"Alarms clang as a radarman tracks an attack craft that can jam radar and dart past flak at half a Mach: ack-ack-ack, …"

"Whenever Helen sleeps, her fevered rest meekens her; hence, she re-emerges enfeebled — her strength, expended; her re…"

"Lightning blinks, striking things in its midst with blinding light. Whirlwinds whirl; driftwinds drift. Spindrift is …"

"Loops on bold fonts now form lots of words for books. Books form cocoons of comfort – tombs to hold bookworms. Profs …"

"Duluth dump trucks lurch, pull U-turns. Such trucks dump much undug turf: clunk, clunk — thud. [...] Such pumps suck …"

"What we need most in our vast domains is population, but few will deny that the home product is always the best adapt…"