I literally hate working out.

Know what the best thing about insomnia is? That I get to stay up all night figuring it out.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.

With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.

Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

Everyone's so timid and afraid to insult anybody, but in the end, it's like we're all trying to please everyone. In the end, we please no one.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

I would actually write books totally full of nothing BUT kissing scenes, but apparently people like books to have, like, "plots" or whatever.

What happened once I started distributing communion was the truly disturbing, dreadful realization about Christianity: You can't be a Christian by yourself.

If there were several ways to dwell with a perfect God, God wouldn't have had to leave His glory, entering a dead world to save us.

Whereas, if you just say all right, let's try to bring in some recurring people, maybe that will alleviate some of the burdens on the budget moving forward.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

I really do believe I can accomplish a great deal with a big grin, I know some people find that disconcerting, but that doesn't matter.

People who are making films today are too concerned with mechanics - technical things instead of feeling.

Geeks are people who love something so much that all the details matter.

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.