How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

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

The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?" "Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

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.

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

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!