To the resentment that hides inside love, to the loneliness that hides among companions.

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.

They say you should know your limits and work within them. But how can you really know your limits unless you try to expand them?

Is it time for your period, or somet

There are two causes for "burning": passionate desires coming from our thoughts, and flirting.

That which wounds, shall heal.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up.

I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect.

I have a very dry sense of humor.

I'm really into rooibos tea with goat's milk and a little bit of honey. I also drink dandelion tea, Earl Grey, and sometimes a green tea. I'm very into tea.

You don't play for revenge, you play for respect & pride