| "At the age of sixteen, I suffered recurring nightmares." |
| "In New Hampshire we know ourselves by winter -- in snow, in cold, in darkness." |
| "Here is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years." |
| "You may have heard of Twitter but have no idea what it actually is." |
| "The whole of the East was on the move." |
| "Guys have long-standing relationships with their plumbing tools, particularly the plunger." |
| "The first charge against human reproductive cloning is that it is an expression of hubris." |
| "The canary yellow three-by-five card fell to the floor, face down." |
| "Tom Kendall was woken by the sounds of a cat killing the family of blackbirds which had nested in the creeper outside his bedroom window." |
| "The boy had been crouched so long that his legs had fallen asleep beneath him--but he dared not move now." |
| "America, said Horace, the office temp, was a run-down and demented pimp." |
| "Humans are selfish." |
| "Tibet was a forbidden land." |
| "Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself." |
| "Gita rose from her table at the Au Bon Pain and carefully wiped away the crumbs." |
| "At fourteen I decided to spend my life writing poetry, which is what I have done." |