But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

The ability to fantasize is the ability to survive, and the ability to fantasize is the ability to grow

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

I am a child of the poisonous wind that copulated with the East River on an oil-slick, garbage infested midnight. I turn about on my own parentage. I inoculate against those very biles that brought me to light. I am a serum born of venoms. I am the antibody of all Time. I am the Cure. You do of the City, do you not? Manhattan is your punisher, let me be you shield.