We are anxious to get a bit of pride back into our game again.

She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

It looks like this big spaceship is cured.

You guys are going to be really glad I brought a camera. Nothing could look weird to me after this.

This is just like putting in an airplane engine,