I'm cursed with empathy. I'm also by nature way too opinionated.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

As far as I know Misha wrote the first cyberpunk poetry.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic.

Innocence could be considered a discrete state of mind.

I do try to be of some use in the world. I sometimes do volunteer work with kids, and manage to help some people a little, but really making a significant difference can be hard.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

I do sometimes watch 'Dr. Who' and while the stories barely make sense, if at all, the doctor is such great company I don't care.

Oh, the best dancers know/what grace/every stumble/contains.

Be therefore not anxious about tomorrow for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

I am not 'most' and I am not 'people'.

I love food shows: Anthony Bourdain, Iron Chef, Chopped, you name it.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

I think music should be experienced by people all ages.

Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.