What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

Don’t grieve when people fail to recognize your ability. Grieve for your lack of ability instead.

You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

All unbelievers in Jesus Christ is a House Divided Against Itself

It feels great to be a role model and I'm very careful with the things I do. I'm not perfect, I do make a lot of mistakes, but I try my best.

She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

I like to see a lot of pitches just to get a feel for being in the batter's box and seeing pitches.

Remember, we are mortal, but poetry is not.

I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Follow your heart. It rarely leads you astray. It's thinking that gets us into trouble.

DON'T FEAR FAILURE. Fear being successful at things that don't matter