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

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

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.

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

It didn’t matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.