A scholar can never let mere wrongness get in the way of the theory.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

My Google-fu is strong.

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.