Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work.

(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!

I sit up straight and do the first thing a person is supposed to do in an emergency, which is send a text message.

He has the strangest expression on his face- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND.

There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.