Quotes About Author

My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.

I don't believe in work-life balance. I think it's more about work-life integration because, increasingly, so much time of ours is spent doing work, so I've always wanted to dedicate my work life to having a social impact.

It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.

I'm not someone who has a list of great books I would read if I only had the time. If I want to read a particular so-called classic, I go ahead and read it. If I had more time, I would certainly read more, but I'd read the way I always do - that is, I'd read whatever happened to interest me, not necessarily classics.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

My first job in television was on 'My So-Called Life.'

We're in the explanation business, and if the answers to the questions we explore got too simple, we'd be out of work.

the idea that brains create consciousness—an

The dream of control is seductive but it leads to monoculture in the field and fortified white bread in the supermarket.

Convinced that trepanation would help facilitate higher states of consciousness, Feilding went looking for someone to perform the operation on her. When it became clear no professional would oblige, she trepanned herself in 1970, boring a small hole in the middle of her forehead with an electric drill.

ordained Zen monk

A vegetarian living on the frontier, he deemed it a cruelty to ride a horse or chop down a tree; he once punished his own foot for squashing a worm by throwing away its shoe.

Altered States of Consciousness, that made a tremendous impression on Paul. Edited by Charles T. Tart

maybe his libido was submerged in some sort of polymorphous love of nature, as some biographers have theorized about Thoreau.

My response to those asking how they can become a food writer is the same: first, become a writer.

narcissism is annoying," Brooks said. "But we need him going

Even the littlest minds, sunk in petty pride of self, are susceptible to chords struck on the cosmic scale.

Thomas Macaulay's History of England

Hey! I'm still fuckin' this monkey. She's just here to take pictures.

National Security Implications of Climate-Related Risks and a Changing Climate, was released in 2015.

This resulted, in 2012, in the publication of Global Water Security

that it was an advantage to him to be interrupted in speaking, and that his adversaries were afraid to nettle him, lest his anger should redouble his eloquence.

Vainglory and curiosity are the twin scourges of our souls. The former makes us stick our noses into everything: the latter forbids us to leave anything unresolved or undecided.