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

When every single piece of media you consume is time-shifted, does that mean it's actually you that's time-shifted?

So I guess you could say Neel owes me a few favors, except that so many favors have passed between us now that they are no longer distinguishable as individual acts, just a bright haze of loyalty. OUr friendship is a nebula. (34)

Your life must be an open city, with all sorts of ways to wander in.

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 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.