what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

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.

It would be, for me, mere pointless pleasure, an illusion of order for this one frail, foolish, flicker-flash in the long dull fall of eternity.

The most valuable currency in life is compassion.

In the crossroad, may you the right open path.

Because of our interconnectedness we all know that extreme poverty and exclusionary practices are violations against the basic dignity of people.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

We've been bought with a price, the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. So none of us really have any rights.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last.

I don't actually like touring.

You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction