You don’t learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

I studied the cello for a long time, from when I was little up through college.

You're saying the gods don't have free will." "The power to make mistakes," Penny said. "Only we have that. Mortals

The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.

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.

Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.

You're all so obsessed with other worlds, you're so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you've never bothered to figure out what's going on here!