Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

The great thing about novels is that you can be as unshy as you want to be. I'm very polite in person. I don't want to talk about startling or upsetting things with people.

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.

Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.