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

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people.

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

Instead, I was interested in what I guess I could call narrative indeterminacy, in questioning the apparent, taken-for-granted authority of any particular representation of the events in question.