Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.

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

Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.

I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

The job of the novel is to be true to the confusion, but not so confusing that you turn the reader off.

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

I think I am done with Wikipedia for the time being. But I have a secret hope. Someone recently proposed a Wikimorgue - a bin of broken dreams where all rejects could still be read, as long as they weren't libelous or otherwise illegal.