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.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

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

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

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.

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

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