You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

It's a finger snapping kind of day.

In the mirror you see the reflection of your face. In the world you see the reflection of your thoughts.

I have no particular talent. I am merely inquisitive.

In the university, professors make up artificial problems. In the real world, the problems do not come in nice, neat packages. They have to be discovered.

Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.

Whatever kind of introvert you are, some people will find you 'too much' in some ways and 'not enough' in others.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

I love jazz and pop rock and country. I grew up listening to Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Def Leppard, AC/DC, Anne Murray - if I hear something really great I want to be a part of it.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.