Chronicle
How Not to Meet Elvis Presley
“John and his friend Snurd had devised their own system of navigation. The system consisted of enthusiasm, beer, and almost no attention to where they were going.
It was not a particularly sophisticated system.
But then, neither were they.”
One Book Was Enough
“The shop acquired evidence of its unlikely existence. A report card displayed the poor grades of the boy who had become its author. Rejection letters could be shown to people standing beside the book that had survived them. Walter gave these old judgments places where they could continue doing a useful job: entertaining his customers.”
Something to Show for It
“For so many years, the stories could only happen where I was. They went to work with me, waited through the practical business of the day, and disappeared whenever I forgot them. Putting them into words gives them somewhere else to exist. Another person can find them there.”