I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

Maybe the two different worlds we lived in weren't so different. We saw the same sunset.

nothing can wear you out like caring about people

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I think we should think of AI as the intellectual equivalent of a backhoe. It will be much better than us at a lot of things.

They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.

In science, you can say things that seem crazy, but in the long run they can turn out to be right. We can get really good evidence, and in the end the community will come around.

If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky

I refuse to say anything beyond five years because I don't think we can see much beyond five years.

I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.

Backhoes can save us a lot of digging. But of course, you can misuse it.

My love for you it sings, It cries My love for you it dreams, It wake’sMy love for you it gives, It takesMy love for you it lives, But never dies.

Man is in his own microcosm akin to a personal box, with poetry as its lid which it can defend itself from the world

I do whatever is necessary in order to maintain the equanimity we all need to withstand the disappointment and rejection that are the lot of every writer, no matter where we are in our careers.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses

Admiration is one of the chief delights of living.

Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.

I'm a theorist, not an institutionalist.

When you hang with a bunch of 300-pound linemen, you tend to find the places that are the greasiest and serve the most food.