"When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."
- Cory Doctorow
"Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do."
"We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. Indee..."
"What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?"
"If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you."
"It's our goddamed city! It's our goddamed country. No terrorist can take it from us for so long as we're free. Once we're not free, the terrorists win! Take it back! You're young enough and stupid eno..."
"He had them as spellbound as a room full of Ewoks listening to C-3PO."
"The United States of America was a pirate nation for the first one hundred years of its existence, ripping off the patents and trademarks of the imperial European powers it had liberated itself from b..."
"No, I mean I'm sorry that you've inherited such a miserable, collapsing Old Country. A place where rich Bankers own everything, where you've got to be grateful for a part-time job with no benefits and..."
"Every good thing comes to some kind of end, and then the really good things come to a beginning again."