reach isn’t describable in terms of cause and effect anymore: it’s simultaneous.

I was a stepchild in two different families. The hardest thing about being a stepchild is you know that in some way everything would be easier if you didnt exist.

If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Read at the level at which you want to write. Reading is the nourishment that feeds the kind of writing you want to do.

Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.

I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Reading is the nourishment that lets you do interesting work.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.

Vinegar: that's what fear smells like.

'Anthony and the Magic Picture Frame' tells it like it really was in America's early space program - the adventure, the risks, and the rewards.

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms.

When three persons work together, each can be the teacher in some aspects

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

To deride the hope of progress is the ultimate fatuity, the last word in poverty of spirit and meanness of mind.

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded.