Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Anything based on ancient texts is difficult for a modern reader to get their head around.

A thing named is a thing tamed.

Our lives are like these things I make. Turn 'em, build 'em, bake 'em in fire. That's what you've been, son. Baked and fired. But a pot don't have the right to choose whether he be for water, wine, or just left empty. You have, son. You have.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Online communities are an expression of loneliness.