If performance of duty is part of excellence, then it should give satisfaction and happiness.

Wisdom clears the mind of delusions thus making it more focused to achieve excellence.

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

Food to me, in one word, is 'creativity' or 'expression.' It's simply, 'This is who I am at this point in time, and this is what I want to cook for you.'

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

I can't stand by and allow tens of thousands of innocent people to be slaughtered for lies.

[David] Bowie's last album "Blackstar" featured him backed by a jazz quartet.

I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary. My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of.

What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens.