We think literature is immortal, but even that decays and ultimately turns to dust.

I'm not sure that Van Gogh got up in the morning and looked at the crows and the bizarre clouds and went damn that's a good painting, you know? No, he considered shooting himself, and one day he did.

I like to write adventure stories; that's what I tell myself. But you can't help letting your own personality, your own experiences, slip through.

Every invention eventually becomes obsolete.

I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.

I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.

You can't go home and listen to Chopin, and just use it.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does.

God is not necessary to create culpability, or to punish. Our fellow men are enough for that, helped by ourselves.

The Scout Oath and Law are our binding disciplinary force.

Great hospitals do two things. They look after patients, and they teach young doctors. We look after clients, and we teach young advertising people.

One of the key insights of the systems approach has been the realization that the network is a pattern that is common to all life. Wherever we see life, we see networks.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

I at least want to keep having fun, and the rest we will see.

When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.