Particularly with MFA students, who have so much invested - literally and figuratively - I feel like honest criticism is something they're owed. It's not going to be easier in the real world, surely.

I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

And there are rules for crime fiction. Or if not rules, at least expectations and you have to give the audience what it wants.

Who cut him?' Sam liked saying things like 'Who cut him?' It reminded him of being a kid and watching prison movies, which is probably why prisoners talked like that, too.

She shook her head, her smile fading a little. “I forget you’re a rock star now. To me, you’re just Logan.”I took her hand. “That’s all I want to be.

There are not wings of dreams that have not previously dealt with the flight of black thoughts.

What I'm trying to do is, is to make a significant difference in space flight. And help make space flight accessible to almost anyone.

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.

Arsene Wenger is sitting on the hot chair

Coldplay was unknown, and we played them over and over and over again, and they were really loyal to us. They went on M2 way after they had broken and become famous, because they remembered us.

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

I started out as a molecules kid. In high school and early college I loved chemistry, but I gradually shifted toward physics, which seemed cleaner - odorless, in fact.

In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

In the supposed state of nature, all men are equally bound by the laws of nature, or to speak more properly, the laws of the Creator.