A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

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.

I am not by nature the kind of creator who is transgressive in order to be transgressive.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and other dreams

Where does contagion end and art begin?

We have an obligation to imagine. It is easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing: an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is, individuals change their world over and over, individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining that things can be different.