The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.

Someday I would change my name to Shut Up and save everybody a lot of time.

I work on a laptop specifically so I can work in cafes and pretend I'm part of the human world.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.

You can laugh your way into hell but not out.

It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.

I do go back to Brazil once a year. I miss my family.

There are a lot of people in Milwaukee who have had adverse impacts from Scott Walker. He's managed to mess over everyone in Milwaukee.

Love is blind, definitely. You never know someone truly or properly, that's what I've discovered.

I am deeply fulfilled by all that I do.

After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria.