I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

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.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.

When we started in television, there was that magic box in the corner of the room, and 'Oh my gosh - look what it's doing!'

I would like to maximize the level of human choice in the medical field...The choice of a treatment in many ways is like the exercise of religion.

No action, activity, or process is more central to a healthy organization than the meeting

You can't be a person and a lady. If you're a person, you can open the damned door yourself.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.

I never worry about what they think about me. Because I feel so far away from what my Italian colleagues have done that I almost automatically become an isolated director.

What happens to your money directly affects the quality of your life -- not your stockbroker's life or your banker's life, but YOUR life.