There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.

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.

It is harder to preserve than to obtain liberty.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

We need to step into certain uncertainty. Without faith it is impossible to please God.

Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

I am very driven by fame and success; I like to succeed at everything I do.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

In a way, it is beautiful to be young and hard up. With the right wife, and I had her, deprivation became a game.

We hold that the Constitution does not forbid the states minor intrusions into an individual's body under stringently limited conditions.