Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Sydney Smith

Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.

Joyce Carol Oates

Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

Ridley Scott

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivablethough much less certainthat extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air.

Albert Einstein

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Brian Tracy

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

Plato

To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

Oscar Wilde

Truth comes out in wine.

Pliny the Elder

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.

Tom Waits