The accolade of your peers is very exciting, always. There's lots of good stuff on the ballot.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks

It's not necessarily about what career you pick. It's about how you do what you do.

I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free—and we're not. Guess who's winning the "war on terror?