I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.

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.

Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not.

Inspiration comes from not only within ourselves, but also from watching life around us.

we're only ever limited to our own beliefs

The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

I think girls in general need to be more complimentary... It just makes people feel better.

Women get 77 cents on the dollar that men get for the same job.

We're all moving to a world where the forces of nature come closer together to technology.