Reading and writing are the same thing; it's just one's the more active and the other's the more passive. They flow into each other.

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.

I want to see, to know, to have, to be.

Everything that you want in life, is possible. But the reflection in the mirror will always show who is reflecting. One can’t change the reflection without changing himself.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

Happiness is a warm gun.

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

I didn't know that other people thought things about me. I didn't know that they looked.

The world needs another vehicle to get people to pay in cash.