Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

When I was 35 I realized that I was still thinking a lot about what it would be like to go to Narnia. To really go - not just in a daydream, or in a children's book, but what it would actually feel like, physically, psychologically, every other way. The idea was haunting me.

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

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

Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

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.