There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

For Beatrice - you will always be in my mind, in my heart and in your grave.

Today was a very cold and bitter day, as cold and bitter as a cup of hot chocolate, if the cup of hot chocolate had vinegar added to it and were placed in a refrigerator for several hours.

The Basic Eight and Watch Your Mouth both have first-person voices, and I ended up investigating those voices and investing so much in them that I think many people took them more seriously than they ought to have.

Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

I want to love you and take you pretty places. Yes, I have things wrong, but also I can walk through walls if you'll let me show you.