Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

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

I don't see any point in nihilism... just as I suppose the nihilist sees no point in everything else.

The true ninja doesn't make a splash at all.

Ya gotta live somewhere, but also you GET to live somewhere.

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.

Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that.