A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

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

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth. I have no idea. I’d probably just google it.

The thinnest tendrils of dawn are creeping in from the east. People in New York are softly starting to tweet.

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. It takes forty-one seconds to climb a ladder three stories tall. It's not easy to imagine the year 3012, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't try. We have new capabilities now—strange powers we're still getting used to. The mountains are a message from Aldrag the Wyrm-Father. Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

I've never listened to an audiobook before, and I have to say it's a totally different experience. When you read a book, the story definitely takes place in your head. When you listen, it seems to happen in a little cloud all around it, like a fuzzy knit cap pulled down over your eyes