I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.

This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.

...It sounded like a dragon breathing in time with me, like I had this pet dragon who was cuddled up next to me and cared enough about me to time his breaths to mine.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.