Every artist has limits. No one can do everything. It's impossible.

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.

One day, the child will understand what he feared most and he will laugh at his ignorance!

I just watched this documentary on the mating habits of whiptail lizards and trust me, if those things can make it happen, you can too, my friend.

Pressure or violence will ever move us to relinquish our honor or our equality of rights.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid.

There is no part of like that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

Science gets more fun when I get a bigger gun!

We've finished our debut album which has 14 tracks. We're very proud of the release and can't wait for people to hear it.

To create is to resist, to resist is to create.