"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living."

“If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.”

“I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.”

“Rumors are spread by jealous people”

“For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.”

Source : "(Designed by) DAVID CARSON / Speak, an edgy new magazine for the video generation pushes, folds and mutilates the visual envelope" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. March 05, 1996.

“I once asked Myung Mi Kim where gender is located in her work, and she said simply, "it's everywhere," resisting the notion that gender needs to be overly inscribed into the text with some kind of message. Hers is the kind of work that has most influenced how I make poetry - the idea that we don't need to enclose or nail down gender or race, for that matter.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.”

“I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.”

Source : "Ben Elton applauds 'vibrant' standup comedy scene" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. May 15, 2012.

“Men threatened by feminism either don't understand it or don't like that they now have to modify their own shitty behavior.”