I want to write books that can be read a hundred years from now, and readers wouldn't be bogged down by irrelevant details.

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.

After dissolution of fears, your mind and emotions act in harmony to help you to make you a joyous soul. You don’t need to do extra efforts to get what you desire.

Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.

I really loved living in the White House, but I don't miss it at all.

There's so few people in this town with a conscience.

We're made up of energy, so who's to say you can't transmit through electrical means? If you could transmit yourself wirelessly, then it's Armageddon pretty much.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

God answered the prayers of animals.