I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

You'll never see me in a true New York raincoat, although I own one. You'll never see me wear rainboots. I guess I'm just not a rain person.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

The only failure is giving up.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there?

The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

A novel is a mirror walking down a road

I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and twitter to contrive fiction.

Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

What is it like to be a bat? What is it like for a bat to be a bat?