The Holocaust marooned the Jewish people in history.

Sometimes, when I couldn’t afford to pay the utility bill at the end of the month, I was forced to read by the light of the stories themselves.

Walter Benjamin has this notion of the angel of history and in a way that's paradoxical itself. We don't have angels in history anymore. We don't believe in these mythical creatures anymore.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

I felt that I had been driven from the temple where for nineteen years, along with other believers, I had worshiped the great god News on a daily basis.

The secret of good magic is another magic.

Is my world turning into Harry Potter's?!

It's hard to get a hug wrong.

I have no intention of ending my career in a rooming house, with full scrapbooks and an empty stomach.

People who are following their dreams inspire me.

I think Leopard is a much better system [than Windows Vista] but OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary.

I've always been a rough kid.

In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that contrast we like.