My heart, to put it more simply, got nostalgic for the present. Always a bad sign.

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.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

The deepest and most sublime hatred is a hatred which creates ideals and transforms values—something whose like has never been seen on earth

Being happy at work is possible for all of us, anytime & anywhere, with open eyes and a caring heart

I'm going to a dance." With Becky?" No, with Alexander." Who's Alexander?" The love of my life!

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

I don't think I'll be making documentaries my whole life.

Everyone falls down. Getting back up is how you learn how to walk.