I have this obsession with the '80s because I missed all of it.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

Jealousy often turns people into irresponsible storytellers.

Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).

There is no "I" as such apart from others.

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Instant gratification is not as good as that gratification which comes dripping slow, over the sere seasons.

Australian SF book publishing has undergone a boom recently, and sometimes it's easier for new writers to sell a book to a local publisher first, which then makes a US edition more likely.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

[On Las Vegas:] ... The City That Never Sleeps. The City That Sins and Smiles and Lives On the Edge. The city where vices become virtues, become what everyone is here to do.

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories.

Not a single other creature in all the history of the world has been just as ourselves. Not another will be like us.