Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.

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.

Look beyond what you see.

We do things we’re not proud of. Nikolas more than most.

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

We won with the military. We won with highly educated, pretty well educated and poorly educated. But we won with everything, tall people, short people, fat people, skinny people just won.

Very few among us are noble, or even mature, in all parts of our nature at the same time.

Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

The outward work can never be small if the inward one is great, and the outward work can never be great or good if the inward is small or of little worth.

In business a reputation for keeping absolutely to the letter and spirit of an agreement, even when it is unfavorable, is the most precious of assets, although it is not entered in the balance sheet.

I dont usually have dreams. I'm to busy sleeping to dream.