The law of mosaics: how to deal with parts in the absence of wholes.

The big picture is that there is no big picture. That's why we keep painting it.

People read fiction... to learn something about how to live their lives.

If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.

Use your imagination, " I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.

I want to write a book like a cloud that changes as it goes.

literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.

Purpose stirs creativity, without purpose you life will be in abnormal use(abuse).

I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Twitter is not a technology. It's a conversation and it's happening with or without you.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.

Yes some people say ignorant things about autism but silencing them solves nothing. They need to be educated. That's how things change.

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.