“When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.”

“I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale...”

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.”

“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors...”