"I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr."
"I believe in hope, in what is something called ”radical hope.” I believe there is hope for all of us, even amid the suffering. And that’s why I write fiction, probaby. It’s my attempt to keep that fragile strand of radical hope, to buld a fire in the darkness.r"
"Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you."
"If people were rain, I'd be a drizzle and she'd be a hurricane."
"Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome."
"Nerd life is just so much better than regular life."