The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.

If talent without hard work was a dead-end street, talent with hard work could only be a highway.

...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has been known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

We don't need to eat anyone who would run, swim, or fly away if he could.

Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, They remember it again - Echo still the joyful sound "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"

Good and bad, what's good and bad? I don't know.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

If I'm out shopping and someone talks to me, I get startled, as I'm not a natural celebrity.

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.