Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Never underestimate the determination of a kid who is time-rich and cash-poor.

This is why I loved technology: if you used it right, it could give you power and privacy.

Write even when the world is chaotic. You don’t need a cigarette, silence, music, a comfortable chair, or inner peace to write. You just need ten minutes and a writing implement.

The fact is, almost everything you do is collaborative. Somewhere out there, someone else had a hand it it.

Universal access to human knowledge is in our grasp, for the first time in the history of the world. This is not a bad thing.

The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.

We don’t care about what you did yesterday—we care about what you’re going to do tomorrow.

Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.

Being in the shadows is no way to live, but sometimes its' the only way to find out who you are.

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.

Humility evolves with every hardship.

We must use the wrath of nature as our teacher.

As a young boy, I was obsessed with endangered species and the extinct species that men killed off. Biology was the subject in school that I was incredibly passionate about.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

Going to a psychiatrist has become one of the most dangerous things a person can do.

In the race of faith, stay focused upon Christ, not the other runners, nor the spectators.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.