I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

Beauty can be treacherous.

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I don't believe we're the party of big business.

Dreaming is the most powerful thing because no one can take it from you.

Acceptance means: For now, this is what this situation, this moment, requires me to do, and so I do it willingly.

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

I didn't try and say anything terribly meaningful. I'm definitely not a social commentator at all.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.