The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Failure is always an option.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

...Hope is a ridiculous failing that we need to harbour in order to lead a serene life…

A good approach is to allow one dream per novel. Then, in the final revision, go back and get rid of that, too.

Only Light can drive away the shadows, Darkness can never be diminished by more darkness.

Make sure you control the radio on a long road trip. You don't want to listen to some old-fashioned music the whole time.

She is the innocent stuff in the background of time.

I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?

I like going into nature and that's where I'm happiest.

I think it is really really important that those of us who have deep-faith lives don't feel like we could substitute our own views for everybody else in society regardless of their views.