Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

You can’t burn down a made-up place.

When Walt became all wrapped up in the theme parks and live-action films, we tried to get him interested in animation again, " recalls Frank Thomas, one of the Studio's "Nine Old

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

I played at my church every once in a while, but that's not a good gauge, because everybody loves you at your church.

Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.

When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.

I told you, computers are like women. If you shout at them or ask them to do too many things at once, they shut down and you won't even get a sniff" pg. 4

Convert to IRA-based system.