I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

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.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Sometimes life appears one way, but what matters is how you internalize life and its lessons.

If you look at any great fashion photograph out of context, it will tell you just as much about what's going on in the world as a headline in the New York Times.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old.

I don't think I can breathe now with you gone.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing.

Love is invisible and comes and goes where it wants, without anyone asking about it.

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.