Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.