I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable.

There is a lot of work just in terms of traveling and logistics and people and gear and all that kind of stuff. But I never really have problems playing music. That never seems like work.

They say Australians get that ten-yard stare. It comes from the land and the horizon. You can see all around you for as far as you can see. So you just stare. I do it all the time.

Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

You think it more difficult to turn air into wine than to turn wine into blood?.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

Umm... So I just realized Ive been peeling bananas wrong my entire life. Thank you animal planet.

the camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

I liked books - the respite and privacy of them - books about plants and the formation of ice and the business of world wars. Whenever I sank into them I felt free.