The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I'd learned my lesson.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.