I mean, if Hardee's is urban, I'm not sure I want to see rural.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

He loved the scratching of pencil against paper when he was focused: it meant something was happening.

As a reader, I don't feel a story has an obligation to make me happy. I want stories to show me a bigger world than the one I know.

Scared isn't a good excuse. Scared is the excuse everyone has always used.

I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.

This was the first time in my life that so many things would never happen again.