Once I engage in something, I really engage in it, and I love the process of reading and researching because I come from an academic background.

It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.

I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is.

I only have one idol: John Lennon.

One of the great advantages ofhaving a library, your eminence, is that it is full of books.

Take the necessary steps needed to reach your goals

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

An art machine is a system whose parts when put in motion act upon each other in such a way as to cause you to see things differently

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

What's exciting is there's a curtain that divides the audience from this other world. You want to see behind.

The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but see it.

To save my child, I'd rather go hungry. I got all of Ethiopia inside of me.

Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.