The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.
When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.
The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.
The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.
All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.
Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.