I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.

The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.

I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?

it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger

There were never going to be any happy ending for me. I know that now. But that is all right. That is all right.

A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

We are what we love. We are the things, the people, the ideas we spend our days with. They center us, they drive us, they define us to our very core. Without them, we are empty.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

My job is to help more people have jobs.

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.