I don't have a lot of paper in my immediate work environment, except when I'm doing things like checking the godforsaken proofs.

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.

Sometimes the best vacation is simply closing your eyes for several minutes and recalling wonderful memories.

The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

In my opinion the man looks at the relationship in a more bitter fashion and the woman still holds great hopes.

A subject I'm particularly passionate about is the criminal justice system and almost all of the policies that impact people's lives are determined on a local level.

I think something will soon have to be done to protect people from hacking and blogging and lying and spreading rumors and chasing you down the street. Lives are wrecked that way.

[Hillary] Clinton, we are not where we need to be in the fight against ISIS.

Bureaucracy by its nature resists change and nullifies progress.

I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.