I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

All men of honor are alone.

When we relate and share knowledge authentically, this places us in a state of grace, a state of 'win-win' harmony with all others, and establishes trust among all.

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

Instead of having to program, to wire, to solder, littleBits allow you to program using very simple intuitive gestures.

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

An individual deficient in the sense of humor represents more of a challenge to our idea of the human than a person of subnormal intelligence

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence.

Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power

If I leave my computer, I'm probably not going to get back for hours. If I take a few minutes to answer questions and go web surfing, then guilt kicks in and I get back to work.