If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Tu puedes, tu SIEMPRE puedes

The reality of life is that we are all living someone else's dream. Now that's everyone's fantasy.

I am the best author of my life.

Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.

Chernobyl, an accident or the most successful anti-Marxist attack in recorded history?

I've been onstage once for one performance with four days' rehearsal.

Nationalism is like cheap alcohol. First it makes you drunk, then it makes you blind, then it kills you.

I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent.

The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

As long as your abuser has you scared, you will stay in the cycle of abuse. Thinking of solutions helps you to escape.