You can't tell people how to feel when they read your work. You can only hope to connect.

There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything.

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

I knew I wanted to play around with genre-esque imagery, and the identity theft stuff came in the middle, when I was figuring out how the characters were connected to those images.

I think we're always in some ways writing to the teachers who gave us early love.

Maybe love, like suffering, is relative.

Identity issues are hardwired into the way I think about character - it's almost as if I can't get away from them even if I want to.

I've never been able to sleep very much, even when I was a kid. I used to hate being forced to lay in bed in the darkness, and just shifting in bed and staring at the shadows.

I like to sleep about four or five really solid hours at night, and then sometimes take a nap in the afternoon or early evening after dinner. I love naps.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

I need it! I need it! It's a royal heirloom!""Adrian?""What are you doing here?""Looking for you. Come on, we need to go. I'll drive you home.""No, I can't. Not until we get it. He stole it!

[T]he vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

Like a bellowing beast, he howled her name, his raspy wails riding the gales like a ship on a roiling sea.

Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I think it's wonderful and important for there to be so much choice for customers. Wouldn't it be such a bore if we all created, liked and wore the same thing?

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

School is indeed a training for later life not because it teaches the 3 Rs (more or less), but because it instills the essential cultural nightmare fear of failure, envy of success, and absurdity.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

I find the scientific mind horrendous. All those brains and not a moral imperative between them.