I know nothing about letting go.

It’s been a tough couple of years for condescending nerds. And if bookstores fall, Jon, America will be inundated with a wandering, snarky underclass of unemployable purveyors of useless and arcane esoterica.

Generally speaking, I, like anyone else who does anything publicly, like it when people like what I do, and would like to hear as much.

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.

Part of the transaction between writer and reader is the pleasure of building a community and encouraging people to play along.

Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.

We cannot wholly rely, as though it were Medieval times, [on the notion that] the only reality is what we see in front of us. There are germs. There are changes that are happening in our planet's ecology that are happening over such a long period of time that we cannot see the changes.