For the longest time, it felt kind of like my chest was cracking open, but not precisely in an unpleasant way.

You can't just make me different, and the leave. Because I was fine before.

But it is a pipe." "No, it's not," I said. It's a drawing of a pipe. Get it? All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. It's very clever.

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

Life has become the future.

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

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.