I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.

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.

Keep strong the bond of love.

And I don't care what age you are, kissing in the rain is the best.

I choose my life to this free. I choose my life to be this way

If you run from technology, it will chase you.

My principal focus is finding great dramas.

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

I think every year, my role changes. And I am an open house for advice, for anyone to use. It's just a matter of asking questions.

I'll never have enough time to paint all the pictures I'd like to.