Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.

It's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.

Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people.

He stared down at the golden curls of the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. "You know," he concluded, after a while, "I think he actually looks like an Adam.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

You were her way here, and it's a dangerous thing to be a door.

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.