You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.

When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

The map had been the first form of misdirection, for what is a map but a way of emphasizing some things and making other things invisible?

Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective—even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPod, too.

I also am not particularly risk-averse - I don't mind jumping off a cliff if I trust the people who've told me they'll catch me at the bottom.

Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

May the Lord deliver us from every danger.

There's a whole generation growing up thinking...the government exists to care for them.

So you are the brash young lover returned from the dead?" the Frenchman finally said."And you are the devoted fiance returned from the card room, " Robert shot back...

I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

My mum was too busy raising four of us to encourage my hopes. But I'm glad I had the upbringing I did. It made me a worrier and a thoughtful, curious person.

One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

When I die Bookchinism comes to an end, and all the allusions to it both among Marxists and anarchists.

We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held.