Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

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.

I think we would all agree that people should not be jailed for thoughts. But when, if ever, does a thought cross the line and become a crime?

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

Yoga uses the body to discipline the mind and to reach the soul.

Certainly, you're not going to able to go and pull a Mark Mulder out of your hat somewhere.

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.

The dogs, and home, privacy is my constant.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.