All paths lead nowhere; choose one with heart...

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

If you cannot find a soul mate, at least find a foul mate

If money controls our life, the devil will come into our life also to control that.

But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the grave.

All we can take with us to heaven is what we leave behind in the lives we touch.

I want to be one of the top guys in the back end and make sure I keep our team in line and doing the right things in front of me.

Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

I would also like to mention pianists like Michel Petrucciani or Chick Сorea for whom I have great admiration in the jazz field.

U don't know where u goin unless u know where u come from.