Prison is like high school with knives.

There is nothing like scrubbing toilets for a living to make you question the choices you have made in life.

Sometimes I feel like I am on top of the world. Other times it feels like the world is on top of me.

They kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell.

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

I eat the hearts of girls and puke slugs and snails.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven’t been made yet.

When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.

There might come a day when you will have to fly alone. Don't be afraid. Your wings will take you to ridiculously beautiful places that you never knew existed.

Small differences in a system of great power can have enormous consequences. [Source: Al Jazeera 'Upfront' interview]

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

You have to be strong enough to stand up for what you believe, even if you are standing alone.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

I'm not one of those people who says, 'I never read reviews,' because I don't believe those people.

Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.

The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars.

It's wild how chefs have become like rock stars.