You could know the what of something forever and never discover the why.

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.

Happiness cannot be owned.It is in living in the spiritual experience of living every breath, that lets us taste a moment of it.

To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.

Like animals we call to each other, " was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.

Marriage is the connecting of the two: Without passion it's just friendship

Aren't fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?...No, you're confusing fairy godmothers with sales clerks.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

I always concentrated on doing the very best that I could in the job and the duties that I was assigned.

There is but one failure in life and that is the failure to try.

Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.