“As Aimee Mann could tell you, it’s rare that you ever know what to expect from a guy made of corpses with bolts in his neck.” – Nathan Rabin (on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)

“It sounds like a formula for bad science. And yet the formula for bad science turns out to be the formula for good writing.” – Paul Elle (on Musicophilia)

“Knowing the sources of Schulz’s inspiration does not explain the imaginative power of the work.” – Bill Watterson (on Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography)

“By way of contrasting example, an iPhone is a blank, shiny, flat box that fits in your palm; and the longer you talk about its capacity for complicated work or time-wasting, the more alien and intimidating it becomes.” – Cherie Priest (on steampunk)