Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print, in public.

Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.

I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me.

Harold Bloom weeps for me.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition, nobody should indulge in it.

She didn't see it because when it came to love, she saw what she wanted to see.

However, for the purposes of migrating existing Rails applications to services, the shared database approach may be necessary in the early stages.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.

If the workers are organized, all they have to do is to put their hands in their pockets and they have got the capitalist class whipped.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

The first opera I went to see was Maria Callas singing 'Tosca'.

There is something so different in Venice from any other place in the world, that you leave at once all accustomed habits and everyday sights to enter an enchanted garden.

In my home state of Indiana we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced budgets, low taxes.

It means thanks, it means admiration, it means good-bye to someone you love.