The one thing I always come back to as a writer, what I consider my bedrock, is a lot of charged images that appear in the text.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

How was a boy who'd tasted poverty ever expected to choose the poorer road?

I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately.

The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

There are many universes, many dimensions. They are endless. Most of them are not particularly relevant for us. They won't help us. They won't make us happier.

I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible.

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

Between the kids, the jobs and everything, no matter what color you are, cardio is probably not on the top of your list.

[Buckminster Fuller] could do four, five hours straight where some people would leave, eat, get a snooze and come back and he's still going. He was like a fireplug.