I just thought I'd take a break from publishing for a while.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Milkmen seem so wholesome, and there's no way anybody can be that wholesome.

I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

People are essentially red meat. They are.

I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.

I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

Why don't those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?

I saw the last piece of innocence unfurl inside of her.-Nick Plato (from the story Platonick)

The tackles are coming in thick and thin now.

Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

Always be yourself, unless you can be a unicorn. Then, always be a unicorn.

That feeling of finishedness does not come all at once, and it is not easily won, but I think once you get there it is hard to go back.

As the week wore on, Ivan contemplated the merits of inertia as a problem-solving technique with growing favor

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts... it is to teach them to think.

Reading recent history is good to humble yourself, and also to feel some hopefulness that there is progress.