"Please write an ending where the Martians are defeated. Don't take away your readers' hope."
- Félix J. Palma
"[A] writer’s most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an author’s nose for things, he would be redu..."
"There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood."
"...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made ..."
"Yes, he would look for her, whether to delight in the joys of spring together or to plunge into the abyss. He would look for her because he loved her. And somehow this would lessen the lie Claire was ..."
"The whole world was no more than the precise length of each moment that separated them."
"Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been made lame by a bayonet?"
"It might even teach Murray that while finding true love was one of the most wonderful things that could happen to you in life, finding a friend was equally splendid."
"...the wrath of God pales beside that of man."
"Man needed to dream. Yes, he needed to believe in illusions, to aspire to something more than the miserable, hostile life that suffocated him."