Type a few lines of code, you create an organism.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?

Fight honorably, win honorably, and lose honorably.To fail honorably is betterthan to succeed dishonorably.

It takes a little slip to slip. Inappropriate words are inappropriate!

Thanksgiving is an attitude that must be rooted in the ‘gift of life’ if we ever hope to be thankful for the ‘gifts’ of life.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Jessica Alba. I have the biggest crush on her, I can't even tell you. I met her in Vancouver when she was filming 'Good Luck Chuck.

A friend is another I.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.