It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

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

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

Supposedly I've got traces of an English accent, though I can't hear it. I must have inherited it from my mother, who's English, and then I think it was exacerbated by the fact that I live with an Australian.

It's wonderful to play around with fantasy, because there are an amazing number of as-yet-unbroken rules out there.