A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Magic: it was what happened when the mind met the world, and the mind won for a change.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

We have lived too long. The great days are past.

Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.

The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution.

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.