S R Nathan Quotes

I'll always go back to the stage.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

I never like seeing myself on screen.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

I dont know why everybody is giving Prince Harry a hard time. Hes like every other red-blooded American man - he wants to get drunk and go out with hookers.

One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'

As a kid, I loved Godot because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, its much more resonant.

He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.

I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.

The more competition, the better. I hope to get snubbed again this year.

If you've seen Mary Poppins and The Grinch, come to the Booth Theater and let me shove a little coal down your stocking.

My books are offered through Podiobooks.com and the iTunes Music Store as free audio downloads. I don't sell them.

Podiobooks rules. It's still the best way I know to find an audience for longer works in any genre.

Ignore the trade-pub narratives about how little success indies enjoy.

More and more of my audio fans are asking for audiobook versions - files without the intro/outro/etc that go into the podcasts. More and more want them from Audible.

I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.

Stop aspiring. Start doing.

My characters are all "just people" - people you might know - and the things that happen are things that anybody might do if they lived on a freighter that spent most of its time in the Deep Dark.

I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.

My opinion is that more authors could use podcasts to differentiate themselves in a crowded text-based marketplace.

specialize in small cast/single reader long fiction so I only compete against other podcasts of novels in that form.

I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer.

I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.

We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.

I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.