He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

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

A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.