“That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me!”

“A patent is a legal analog of sticky fly paper: it attracts some of the lowest forms of life.”

“As for me I would have to agree,
I'm as fickle as a paper doll
being kicked by the wind —
when I touch down again
I'll be in someone elses arms”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”

“On paper, it was all there. It's unlike anything else on television or streaming and that can either bode well for it, or work against it. And it has worked for this show in an incredible way.”

“Most of the things I write are things that are personal to me. I realized that that's the only way to really be honest. If you go writing about someone else you're just guessing at it.”

“He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.”

“I'm not looking to be defined as someone that is there in opposition, but rather someone that's there serious about doing the job and doing the work. It's a piece of paper. I could care less about it.”

“You've mistaken me for someone else. Do not wait on me, Ms. Lane. Do not construct your world around mine. I'm not that man."
"Screw you, Barrons."
"I'm not that man, either.”

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence.”