Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.

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.

I didn't do it, ' he insisted.'Then why did you run?' Sabrina asked.'And send rabbits to eat us! I'm a seven-year-old girl, ' Daphne said. 'Do you know how important bunny rabbits are to me?

People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter.

When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

Opposites can attract, as in magnetism. Or explode, as in matter and antimatter.

Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in peoples minds with emotion.

Music is extremely important to have on photo shoots - it brings the mood.