I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

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.

There are so many things we can have in this world, but only 10 percent of it changes the condition of someone's heart.

With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.

God's going to work everything out and use you in ways you can't even imagine.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

Things and conditions can give you pleasure but they cannot give you joy- joy arises from within.

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.

I am saying that all predictions concerning climate are highly uncertain.

I know that the purpose of life is to understand and be in the present moment with the people you love. It's just that simple.

I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.