If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

People talk about 'lives of significance'-as if there's an alternative. If you're not leading a life of significance, you're not living.

The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands.

Goodbye, Papa, you saved me. You taught me to read. No one can play like you. I'll never drink champagne. No one can play like you." -Liesel

You have the ability to choose what you want to experience.

I am happy with everything I achieved in my football career. I don't think I could have done any more.

We do not think it necessary to prove that a quack medicine is poison; let the vender prove it to be sanative.

Hysteria means the same thing with either laughter or tears.