I’ve always been uninterested in boundaries or quarantines between tastes and types, between mediums and genres.

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.

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

If you are in Christ, then you have the heavenly position of His authority and operate on this earth in His name as someone who is from above

My grandmother, a dim, stern figure, named her children Lily and Violet, which I guess from seeing a picture of my mother's paved, ugly backyard, was the nearest she came to a garden.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

The miracle of life is faith.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

That's the only way I could describe the music. It was the sonic equivalent of flight

The credit card business is a success story and that's where Citigroup has put most of its efforts so far. Now Citigroup wants to extend the cooperation and success to more areas.