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

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.

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

Despair is a night without lights. Dreams are the sunrise that leads you out of the darkness.

There's a difference between a mistake or even a crime that's been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that's been implemented or adopted by a government.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

Enthusiasm comes from the Greek word entheos, which means, "inspired" or "filled with the divine."

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

What one heart finds hard to believe, a hundred find easy.

Thinking that everything must be bigger to matter is a problem. Small power emanates and disseminates in a very different way.

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

Comparing Apple to Netflix is like comparing apples to oranges, especially if the oranges made so many mistakes that people stopped eating oranges and just went back to Blockbuster.