I know I'm famous and irresitible - a combination whose properties closely resemble radioactivity - and I know that you in this room are helpless against me.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

So treasure your moments of happiness, the glimpses you see of truth, the nights you've been loved. That's all you've got.

Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the street.

Science rules!

As there is no darkness in the moonlight. So is Mustafa (Muhammad), the well wisher, bright.

I'm confident. Some people don't like confidence. They resent confidence.

Algorithms don't do a good job of detecting their own flaws.

If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.

One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.

There is little in life so reassuring as a genuine welcome.

Ah, man. (Talon) What? (Wulf) Friggin’ Fabio alert. (Talon) Hey, you’re not too far from the mark either, blondie. (Wulf) Bite me, Viking. (Talon)