405 Quotes by Jeff VanderMeer

When you think about the complexity of our natural world – plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example – a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

You wouldn’t understand me even if I made sense.

Silence creates it’s own violence.

There’s also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I think you’re confusing suicide with self-destruction, and they’re very different. Almost none of us commit suicide, whereas almost all of us self-destruct. Somehow. In some part of our lives. We drink, or take drugs, or destabilize the happy job.

I doubt you will enjoy it. But that is the price of change. Someone always pays.

How can you tell if a streak of light across the sky is sincere?

Trust your imagination. Don’t be afraid to fail. Write. Revise. Revise. Revise.

I aimed my flashlight at the ground – and leapt back, gasping. Incredibly, a human face seemed to be rising out of the earth.