It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Ideas that require people to reorganize their picture of the world provoke hostility.

In the mind's eye, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

I have seen the future, and it is still in the future.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.

Life sucks order from a sea of disorder.

Geniuses of certain kinds - mathematicians, chess players, computer programmers - seem, if not mad, at least lacking in the social skills most easily identified with sanity.

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, more so than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

Patience is a firm faith.

Her memories were beads jumbled loose in a box, unstrung.

He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).

A powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

I don't ever feel like I've had a moment where I am like, "There it is; perfect and holy in all ways."

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

I don't care about Christmas, we are going to train on Christmas Day.

Trust is that there should be no difference between what you do and say and what you think.

Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.