But the things in the batteries couldn't be spiders. It just wasn't possible. There had to be another explanation. But of what kind?

I'm psychologically equipped for this.

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Fear is quite the anaesthetic

His desire for this to be a joke was quickly replaced by a desire for whiskey.

Max?' he asked.'Yeah?''...What are you doing?''Shooting people.

Odessa sighed. 'When I said you were one of the smartest people in the company, I was referring solely to your technical abilities. Now get to work.

Simon shook his head. 'I don't want to be a hero. I'd rather abandon the technology altogether, sit on a hill and speak to my neighbours by smoke-signal.

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures.When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

The military operation swiftly became one of disaster management and damage control, search and rescue.

Sudden changes are always acceptable for me. What a weather !! Happy !!

Do not allow criticism to stop you from living your best.

The trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry.

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

I consider Laurence [Fishburn], Keanu [Reeves], both very acclaimed actors, I mean so good.

Being nice to governments doesn't work, they are such lying bastards.

There is plenty of room for us all to succeed and carve our own path.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.