When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

The difference between a fear and a circumstance is acceptance

The life of the creative man is led directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine.

Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.

I think we've got to do more to stop foreign fighters, foreign funding and take ISIS on online, as well as doing everything necessary to keep us safe at home.

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

The share of wealth held by the minority is much greater than the share held by the majority. We have to draw our own conclusions from that and it has to change.

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

If a musician wants to become a finer artist, he must first become a finer person.