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" I'm not patient - and I'm getting more impatient as I get older - but I am disciplined about writing, and I want that on my tombstone: 'He wasn't patient, but he was disciplined.' "

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" A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it. "

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" What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much? "

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" Adventure without risk is Disneyland. "

" The harder you try to become the opposite of your parents, the more quickly you become them. "

" I'm suspicious of places that look decorated. I can understand why people do it, but you see too many cushions or a piece of fabric hanging and it's, like, 'Ugh!' A good house with good art will always work, no matter what. "

" I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger. "

" New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108. "

" I go to the gym three days a week. You have to or else - I don't want to be the guy that dies shoveling snow. "

" The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because of that, frightening. "

" Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness. "

" You can never become rich unless you like rich people. "

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" Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. "

" Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin. "

" In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich. "

" Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs. "

" Life always kills you in the end, but first it prevents you from getting what you want. "

" When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture. "

" Your brain forms roughly 10,000 new cells every day, but unless they hook up to preexisting cells with strong memories, they die. Serves them right. "

" The reason the future feels odd is because of its unpredictability. If the future didn't feel weirdly unexpected, then something would be wrong. "

" Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish unless they hit their head on a rock and suffer brain damage. "

" Any passion to collect has some meaning behind it. "

" I miss the reference section at the library. I used to go there twice a week on missions. Now everywhere's a research library and I can't get an elitist kick from it any more. "

" Vancouver is the square root of negative one. Technically it shouldn't exist, but it does. I can't imagine living anywhere else. "

" The one thing about my life that's different from others is that I wake up for no one, and for some reason, that's just good for your creativity. "

" Quick. Name ten dead redheads. "

" The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top. "

" For whatever reason, I tend to get reporters who are maybe in the middle of intense therapy, and they turn what's supposed to be a professional interview into therapy for themselves. "

" I'm agoraphobic. I can't deal with crowds. "

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" When you crop the photo, you tell a lie. "

" I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots. "