Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

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.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

There's nothing I like more than being on a dance floor with a thousand people feeling love for humanity.

The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.

It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

We will have a border that is open for business, open for tourism, open for legitimate travelers; but that is closed to terrorists and drug pushers and smugglers and others who seek to break the law.

It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.