Complete control can be the death of a work..
Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?.
Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, ….
I never tried to kill myself or anything..
There are things I could say. But I don't..
I'm often wary of using the word 'inspiration' to introduce my work -- it sounds too much like a sun shower from the heavens, absorbed by a passive i….
Depression is the flip side of creative inspiration but it can be useful. It's telling you to stop for a little bit. You can become so fully absorbed….
Without inspiration, we’re all like a box of matches that will never be lit..
I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capita….
Japan, for me, will always be my inspiration source..
Don't just count your days, make your days count..
We become what we habitually contemplate.
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration..
It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions..
The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way..
You love me?” … “Yes. More than life..
About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before..
Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to explore..
I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride..
My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games..
Women are women, and hurray for that..