I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

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.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

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

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

I see you've confused what you're learning in school with actual education.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.

Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.

I love challenging the notion that, in order to be a tech founder, you have to be holed up in a dark room wearing a T-shirt and baggy jeans.

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.

Spider-Man is such a whiny loser.

There was the single abiding certainty that they would never be at a loss for things to carry.

Don't be kind of bold. Be bold.