This is the only country in the world, that worries about what it is. The rest of them know what they are. No one ever needs to go searching for the heart of Norway. Or looks for the soul of Mozambique. They know what they are.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

The comic convention itself tends to come second to the giant announcements in Hall H and the movies and the TV. So I think it's always good to remind people that there is a wonderful comic convention going on.

Bod was thrilled. He imagined a future in which he could read everything, in which all stories could be opened and discovered.

He left the drapes open, watched the lights of the cars and of the fast food joints through the window glass, comforted to know there was another world out there, one he could walk to anytime he wanted.

Walk any path in Destiny's garden, and you will be forced to choose, not once but many times.

We owe it to each other to tell stories.