You can be deeply non-serious and still focused, disciplined, and on task.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

When I found God forgiveness found me.

Intense, sustained focus fuels manifestation.

It rewrites the contract, I'd read somewhere. Your self's no longer central. This thing comes out of you and drags half your soul along after it like a blanket.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.

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

The object of philosophy is the logical clarification of thought.

The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

A giant vulture with a girl hanging from its feet tends to attract attention.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!

It was a bit of fun. But of course like anything that starts as a joke, people started to take it all seriously!