I had an all-Fear of Music iPod, just versions of the 11 songs from the record. No other songs allowed.

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.

Discover your calling and add value to it

If I’m going down, I’m going down with lipstick on.

When you are ready to travel, everything is straight in your path, but when you planning to travel you will face only hurdles.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

It's a very confusing era that we're in.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.

Dreams die hard. And sometimes they don't have to die at all.

The most disturbing and wasteful emotions in modern life, next to fright, are those which are associated with the idea of blame, directed against the self or against others.

I work best inundated with things when it's like raining information.