Teenage life - possibly adult life too is all about what you want and can’t have. And then about what you receive and misuse.

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.

The strength of a kingdom comes from its King, The strength of a King comes from his Queen.

Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.

By instinct we-leaders-want to run hard all the time; by intellect we know this is not possible. Reconciling those two positions in the context of leadership is an ongoing challenge.

There's an energy and excitement when you're building a company. You have so much tail wind. You're planting new seeds. But it's also scary, because there's no safety net.

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.

In cooperative learning, you have a purposeful, meaningful, and authentic context in which children can sharpen their communicative skills.

I cleaned up my act because otherwise I would have kicked the bucket.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.