Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.

I liked interacting with students. I liked having coworkers. For a long time, I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Wait." "So what am I supposed to do now?" "You know, Jin, I would have saved myself from five hundred years' imprisonment beneath a mountain of rock had I only realized how good it is to be a monkey." (222-223)

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Zombies aren't about zombies. It's not about the dead bodies. I think it's a very hopeful subgenre. It says that regardless of what happens, humanity will get through it. We'll figure out a way to survive.