Hank, when people call people nerds mostly what they're saying is,'You like stuff'.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

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

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning,' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary,' and then he died.

The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

Traveling, I am finding, teaches you a lot of things about yourself. For instance, I never thought myself to be the kind of person who pees into a mostly empty bottle of Bluefin energy drink while driving through South Carolina at seventy-seven miles per hour - but in face I am that kind of person.