Develop your pawns or Hulk will smash.

“We writers aren't sculpting in DNA, or even clay or mud, but words, sentences, …”

“A shadow strolled past the car, indifferent to our curbside melodrama. This was…”

“Enough of this. Does every conversation with you have to be the director's cut?…”

“This was the time when all we could talk about was sentences, sentences—nothing…”