I hate feeling too complacent when I write. I like to be solving new problems.

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.

Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind.

At the time of his death, John Kennedy had a national security establishment that was a writhing ball of snakes.

Land!” shouted Thomas. “Is there food?” asked Tubby Ted.

I'd rather write about laughing than crying, For laughter makes men human, and courageous.

If you have power, you have to empower.

I really feel like I could do anything if given enough time.

Just as I work with paints, brushes, and canvas, I work with the light, pieces of glass and chemistry.

There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Wisdom is not knowledge, but lies in the use we make of knowledge.