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

IT’S A MESS when strange events smack into the windscreen of a resolutely rational mind.

He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.

I have come to believe that food is history of the deepest kind. Everything we eat tells a tale of ingenuity and creation, domination and injustice-and does so more vividly than any other artifact, any other medium.