Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages.

All writers have this vague hope that the elves will come in the night and finish any stories.

I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.

I want to go home. Then he mentally underlined the last sentence three times, rewrote it in huge letters in red ink, and circled it before putting a number of exclamation marks next to it in his mental margin.

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!