When it came time to make the audiobook, Audible did an ingenious thing: they asked both Wil Wheaton and Amber Benson to record entire versions of the book. As the author, I'm impressed with Audible's commitment to my narrative -- and I'm geeking out that both Wil and Amber are reading my book. This is fantastic.

I don't care whether I really exist or don't, whether I'm real or fictional. What I want right now is to be the person who decides my own fate.

Being poor is people wondering why you didn't leave.

If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

In other words, crew deaths are a feature, not a bug," Cassaway said, dryly.

The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity.