Quotes About Author

Across the board, most NBA teams do not call back. You need a court order just to get a phone call back from these organizations. I'm not a part of their fraternity.

In my office, I have a very beautiful marble bust of Seneca. I always have my eye on him when I'm taking phone calls. He's one of the many philosophers I've always read and admired.

Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?

I've done photo shoots for fashion brand catalogues and participated in graduation shows for fashion colleges.

My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

I'm fascinated by Greta Garbo. My cat's named Greta, and I have a framed photograph of her from 1949.

I did find a wonderful girl last year, but the photographs that we did were more about motorcars.

I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.

I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

I was really nervous working with actors, since I come from a photography background.

I definitely stand by the phrase that I'm an entertainer and not a role model.

In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'

Every good war film, if you want to use that phrase - I don't think it's a good phrase, but if you want to use that phrase - every good film, a first-rate film about war, is an anti-war movie.

The way people do an impression of me is they use the phrase, 'Who are these people who do this... ?' Then they do some not-quite-good-enough observational humour, which is the most offensive thing.

What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.

If we can think of a place, the physicality of a place, as a kind of 'material,' I would say the landscape of Florida in particular was especially important while writing 'Isle.'

Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.

I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist.

I have more nuclear physicists living in my district than in any other district.

Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.

Most of physics is about energy, and physicists understand inefficiencies. I wanted to write a book about our energy options in a neutral, human-accessible form.