Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.

Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.

He who completes a quest does not merely find something. He becomes something.

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.