...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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

It is great to do what you love but greater with the great team.

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

You go to the Place of the Lie to find out the truth?

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.

I am in the world to change the world.

We no longer have a choice between violence and non-violence. The choice of today stands between nonviolence or non-existence.

War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it.