He looks tired, like someone walked on his skin and left footprints.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Mothers are only human, you turn it over to God and then you just wing it.

It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.

If you need the approval of the platform vendor to ship an app, then it isn't a platform.

It gets tiring being a smartass.

I suppose my liking for Italy is partly atavism, my family are of the old Roman stock. They came from the Alps north of Venice.

There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

Boot the grime of this world in the crotch dear.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.