Too often we become so consumed with how we spend our days that we lose track of how we are spending our lives.

We are tricked by a phenomenon of time: hours and days pass slowly, but years pass quickly.

Do lifelong artists pay a price for having chosen to make art? Of course. Everyone pays the price for his or her choices.

'So what happens next?' 'Everybody dies, and the people who don't get married.' 'Like any other story, then.'

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.

Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity.

A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.

I went to public school up until junior high.

Moral cowardice at the expense of the vulnerable unborn is both wrong and pathetic.

You should never want to be a one position player. If you're a real basketball player, you should be able to play any position. That's the difference between really good players and average players.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.