Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
In this world only the paranoid survive.
I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.
If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.
When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world.