I'm a firm believer that there are no rules in art. Every trajectory is different.

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.

True respect respects all men, it values all people.

When they can't steal your success, they tarnish your character but at the end, they surrender to your strength.

When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet fruit [favourable result] is bitter, then you will go to moksha [the ultimate liberation]!

Take those praises with a level head, you must not be distracted by them. After all, purpose still awaits you.

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

J.D. nodded. Yes, yes, fine, thank you. Nice attitude, by the way. Like boss, like secretary.

Aesthetic delectation is the danger to be avoided.

Some of the biggest advocates for feminism seem to believe that in order to feel powerful you have to make another woman subservient, and that is not what feminism is about at all.