When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that if scientists are allowed to follow their nose, eventually it results in something. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen. What I came out of it with, in a non-cynical way, was that the scientific process is as messy as anything else. There's nothing wrong with that. That's just the way it is.

Who had the bigger burden? The one who had to watch the other person endure or the one who endured?

I had learned so much about the world that I had decided to withdraw from it.

That's how the madness of the world tries to colonize you: from the outside in, forcing you to live in its reality.

The stories in Get In Trouble confirm once again that Kelly Link is a modern virtuoso of the form-playful and subversive required reading for anyone who loves short fiction.