Even a dream as inspiration doesn't mean anything unless you then find that it's sparked an actual story with a plot.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)

Ohana means family, family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.

Can anyone survive without faith, however its labeled? No matter how you live, it seems, you need faith to get by, to get ahead.

If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

Actual evil probably requires much more creativity, passion, and political ideology than anyone at or near the top of Microsoft seems to possess.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.