As much as I care about historical context - I'm very eager to read a really great historical account.

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.

If pain doesn't lead to humility, you have wasted your suffering.

Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

You are the best book you could ever write phi

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

I have to stay hydrated so I don't pass out onstage!

When you're believing in the person that you're playing, you feel protected. It's about being true to that person you're playing.

When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content.

I love to write and I love the natural world. Everything I've written about I've found exciting and it has never left me at a loss for words. I've always just done what I love.

I thought about going to WCW but then I realized I wasn't old enough.

The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.