If you continually write and read yourself as a fiction, you can change what's crushing you.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

It is only God who can fill our void.

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a higher note.

You should be willing to do something that will take you five minutes or less for anybody.

You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.

I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

Perspiration is the best form of differentiation, especially in the creative world.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.