"I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning."

"It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur."

"High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in."

"Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college."

"I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again."

"It is a essential truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"Why do we capital-N Nerds love Mars so much? Because it's beautiful, it's tough, it's buried in our mythic, childhood memories. It's covered with human triumphs but also with sad stories of failure."

"It is a profound truth that we do not remember the passing of hours, but the resonance of moments."