We Roared. We Were One Big Animal

The Opposite Of Esprit D'escalier Is The Way That Life's Embarrassments Come Back To Haunt Us Even After They're Long Past. I Could Remember Every Stupid Thing I'd Ever Said Or Done, Recall Them With Picture-perfect Clarity. Any Time I Was Feeling Low, I'd Naturally Start To Remember Other Times I Felt That Way, A Hit Parade Of Humiliations Coming One After Another To My Mind.

We Don’t Care About What You Did Yesterday—we Care About What You’re Going To Do Tomorrow.

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.

It's Part Of A Cycle Of Stories I'm Writing Where I Deconstruct Classic Science Fiction.

Skipping School Isn't A Crime. It's An Infraction. They're Totally Different.