God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thing.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Close your mouth and get out of the way, because here comes Kelly Link, than whom no one is better.

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

Ideally, I would create a book so interdependent and self-sustaining in its parts, so wondrously connected word by word and paragraph by paragraph, so charged with the joy of language, that it would actually float three or four inches above any table where you try to set it down.