Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

It's the geek who gets the girl, not the jock.

All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.

Your true conviction is tested not when everything goes your way but rather when things go wrong...

Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

When you meditate, you activate cosmic energies.

Most fiction series are written so that the reader can come in at any point and not feel lost, but if you can start at the beginning, why not?

It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

We are all Africans under the skin.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Hunger feeds the need to succeed.

You don't want to look too far ahead or get too excited about anything, so I just want to keep doing what I've been doing.