The sky was the colour of sad weddings.

People make events into stories. Stories give events meaning.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Routine kills creative thought.

Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.

What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.

I wonder if the reason I tend to say yes to everything is because I deeply believe that I can survive anything.

One of the biggest problems for beginning writers is this need to over-explain.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

If your thoughts are higher than your problems, you can fly above them.

Inspirational quotes are only making you more miserable.

The mind is an instrument made up of universal consciousness, egocentric consciousness, societal consciousness, along with education, values, virtues, judgment and wisdom.

When you're trapped in a prison, and your heart is broken, and you can't move a finger because you don't know what to do, that's when you wake up.

Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.

Your mind will always try to complete what it pictures, so always picture success no matter haw badly things are going at the moment.

I like to stand near ATM machines, and when somebody types in their pin number, I go, 'Got it!' And then I run away.

Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

The techniques of artificial intelligence are to the mind what bureaucracy is to human social interaction.