I met someone who lives in an elevator.

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.

It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.

Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.

Our bilateral relations are very good, they’re very close. In the areas of business, of the economy, the United States of America last year were our most important trading partner.

Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever.

You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Not many composers have ideas. Far more of them know how to use strange instruments which do not require ideas.

It's always been a dream of mine, and a childhood fantasy, to play a great champion. I would much rather haven been an athlete than an actor. This is like some second place consolation prize.

Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only.

Let gentleness my strong enforcement be.