If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

There are just two ways in life..either you do it or you don't!!

In this journey called "Life" I've learned that God never consults our past to determine our future" ~Lá Tanyha Boyd

We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

Talking to yourself proves only one thing: you're still unable to tell the difference between good and bad company.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

If courage is acting according to one's conscience despite pain or fear, then strength is the ability to keep conscience awake and in force despite the demands of authorities to do otherwise.

Calling George Bush shallow is like calling a dwarf short.

If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

"The Secret" is the law of attraction.