You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.

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.

History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.

Behind these eyesthere is a girl trapped withinher pain – a girl feeling all the emotionsof anger and sadness.She’s fighting for a way out.” (In her eyes, p. 39)

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.

Full many wanton babes have I, Which must be stilled with lullaby.

When you think of a movie, most people imagine a two hour finished, polished product. But to get to that two hour product, it can take hundreds or thousands of people many months of full time work.

I like the groups on Factory, A Certain Ratio and Section 25. I

Nor all that heralds rake from coffin'd clay, Nor florid prose, nor honied lies of rhyme, Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime.

Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.