"I would call it Bottom's Dream, for it has no bottom."

Patrick Rothfuss is a treat, y'all. If you get a chance to see him, please do! He prefaced his reading/chat with some very strict ground rules, and then it turned out he had been a first-year composition teacher, and the ground rules suddenly made total sense. He started out answering all sorts of random questions, and they ranged from his favorite Whedon quote ("A doodle. I do doodle. You too. You do doodle too.") to the requisite questions about inspiration and worldbuilding, to his pantheon of authors (the best, in his opinion, being Beagle, Pratchett, and Gaiman), to the ability to smell how many times a book has been read. It was a nice crowd, maybe 40 or 50, and respectful and casual and enthusiastic at once. He read a humor column he once wrote, discussing fast zombies vs. slow zombies, as well as an excerpt from the second chapter of his next book. He is easily distracted, highly caffeinated, and understandably paranoid about ending up on YouTube. He would fit into fandom quite well, though for professional reasons, he felt guilty when he started writing Dr. Horrible fanfiction and stopped halfway before he finished. When he signed my copy of The Name of the Wind--he remarked it was warm, because I had been hugging it, and I confessed it was my first paper copy, as opposed to the e-copy I read in Poland--I asked for his favorite quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream, which he had earlier mentioned was his favorite Shakespeare play. Hence the subject line of this post.