There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

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.

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war than threaten to steal a man's soul.

Followers of Jesus do well to spend more time engaging him than explaining him.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.

Trouble will come soon enough and when he does come receive him as pleasantly as possible ... the more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away.

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.