When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

The world is a story we tell ourselves about the world.

I was writing fiction steadily, but I found that the stark determinisms of code were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.

If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!

I was never very good at exams, having a poor memory and finding the examination process rather artificial, and there never seemed to be enough time to follow up things that really interested me.

Need nothing and then see what happens.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

All artists yearn to struggle, when they struggle they know they're alive.

Be true to yourself, and stick with who you are through thick and thin without letting anyone dilute your essence.

He who has trusted where he ought not will surely mistrust where he ought not.

Henceforth we are dead to everything pertaining to ourselves and alive to His Spirit alone. This requires our exercising faith.

Memoir is the art of inventing the truth.