It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.

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

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

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

As a teenager I wrote to R.A. Lafferty. And he responded, too, with letters that were like R.A. Lafferty short stories, filled with elliptical answers to straight questions and simple answers to complicated ones.

I'm bored," she said. "Learn how to tap-dance," he suggested, without turning around.

The truth is, it's not the idea, it's never the idea, it's always what you do with it.