Nature, or at least birds and women, abhorred the invisible man.

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.

Here’s the solution. We need a CO2 tax, revenue-neutral, to replace taxation on employment, which was invented by Bismarck — and some things have changed since the 19th Century.

To be a good diarist one must have a little snouty sneaky mind.

Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.

To give us room to explore the varieties of mind and body into which our genome can evolve, one planet is not enough.

All things have their place, knew wee how to place them.

I'm a very private person, and I don't want to share stuff with anyone.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

To move Nigeria forward, we must define our interest in the Nigeria project

I think the idea of family and protecting the family is something that ties a lot of these women together.