Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life.

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

Energy experts have announced the development of a new fuel made from human brain tissue. It's called assohol.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist.