I can't bear the silent ringing in my skull.

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.

Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

Each person you meetis an aspect of yourself, clamoring for love.

To live in happiness, always do something that will bring joy to others.

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

We do not fail to enjoy the fruit of the Spirit because we live in a sea of corruption

Relationships take time and energy, and your job kind of sucks that all out of you. It takes an extra effort to stay present in a relationship when you are working kind of hours.

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

What causes adolescents to rebel is not the assertion of authority but the arbitrary use of power, with little explanation of the rules and no involvement in the decision-making.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Functional goods sold en masse earn a good return but breakthrough profits come from satisfying emotional needs.