“I don't know if I am simply anything, but I have never felt drawn up into any sub-field or splinter genre. Not a good strategy for a career, I think.”
“Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.”
“The old restaurant, College Street Station, was really here to serve the hotel guests, and it wasn't making money. Last year, at the end of July, we lost money.”
“We are of course working on the environmental side of things but right now we are still concentrating on search-and-rescue missions to save as many lives as possible on land,”
“It bore absolutely no resemblance to the 'rude cabin' described by racial detractors, ... and was surrounded by a bake house, a milk house, a smokehouse, a chicken house with '44 big hens,' a workhouse, a cow house, and a barn that housed '30 big horned beasts.' ”
