What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."

I don't watch television. And certainly not ads; I loathe advertising.

Life may be miraculous in its unlikelihood in the universe, but it would be a fallacy to suggest that its rareness makes it inextinguishable.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

Borges was unapologetically smart and equally sentimental; a proto-geek, blind to distinctions between low pulp fiction and high criticism, experimental but never arch, and always playful, with a humor as dry as dust.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.