note the similarities with buddhism a buddhist who has achieved nirvana is not sad primarily because it does not know the concept of sad [...]

Patriotism is the belief that not all human lives are worth the same.

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

does a society exist where it's become acceptable to wear 'helmets' enclosing one's entire head when in public to preempt social interaction

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

Matt would stare at Andrew for 10 minutes. It's depressing that people are different. Everyone should be one person, who should then kill itself in hand-to-hand combat.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.

This everyday world affects the way art is created as much as it conditions its response.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

A decent bridge can make the worst rubbish special.

I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

I don't think it's a director's job to peek behind the curtain too much.

We [americans] self-regulate ourselves, we self-censor ourselves a lot in this country instead of having someone else censor us so we can blame them. That's not good, either.

I've always been a gamer. I play a version of Dungeons & Dragons.