Good films demand to be looked at several times in order to be observed completely.

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 you're on the treadmill next to me, the answer is YES, we are racing.

It's hard and sometimes it's scary. It still amazes my mother. I went home for Christmas one year and there were fans all over the front lawn, hoping to see me.

If you want to be happy, you will be.

Everything's a business. Love, truth, beauty. Conversation is a business. Spirituality is not a business, so it's going to go against the grain of people who are trying to exploit other people.

History is the record of encounters between character and circumstance.

The best way to win a game is not to lose it.

Lack of charisma can be fatal.

If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.

Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.

A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.