I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

Half a King is my favorite book by Joe Abercrombie so far, and that's saying something.

We all become what we pretend to be.

I was pretty poor for a long time. Not *poor* poor. But college student poor. I lived for most of my adult life living on student wages, then after I got my MA and started teaching, I lived on teacher's wages, which isn't much better.

Reading can almost be viewed as empathy training. Movies have better action scenes, sure. But books are uniquely suited to showing you the inside of another person's head. That is the root of empathy. That's the first step to understanding you're not alone in the world.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.