I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

We Hoosiers hold to some quaint notions. Some might say we 'cling' to them, though not out of fear or ignorance. We believe in paying our bills. We have kept our state in the black throughout the recent unpleasantness, while cutting rather than raising taxes, by practicing an old tribal ritual - we spend less money than we take in.

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval.