Quotes About Stephen

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

Confederate Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory took a different view. "The Great McClelland the young Napoleon," Mallory told his wife, "now like a whipped cur lies on the banks of the James River crouched under his Gun Boats.

The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a "reasonable continuation" of whatever text it's got so far, where by "reasonable" we mean "what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions of webpages, etc." So

I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

We would look up at the night sky together, and although Stephen wasn't actually very good at detecting constellations, he would tell me about the expanding universe and the possibility of it contracting again and describe a star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole in a way that was quite easy to understand.

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

I love making observations. That one is a classic example.

When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity.

We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges.

I had the great fortune to work with John Houseman at Juilliard.

I see SpongeBob on ice-cream trucks a lot, and I've got bootleg SpongeBob merchandise from Mexico.

I want my books sold on airport bookstalls.

I love 'Dexter.' The dark sense of humor is wonderful.

Everybody asks me, 'Hey, what's your most memorable fight?' For me, it's definitely the Matt Brown fight.

an afternoon choreographed by Dante, with music by Stephen King. The car was a furnace.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

I'm not really into reality shows. 'Nip Tuck' is my favorite TV show.

The tea table at 22 Hyde Park Gate provided an informal education in diversity for the young Virginia Stephen. Not only did she encounter the "great men" of the Victorian and Edwardian eras—Symonds, Watts, Meredith, Lowell, James—who were family friends, but she listened too while

Stephen Hopkins was making his second trip to America. Eleven years earlier in 1609 he had sailed on the Sea Venture for Virginia, only to become shipwrecked in Bermudaan incident that became the basis for Shakespeare's The Tempest.

6:08 and the next dude in line is buying the new King and The Shining just to be bold — he calls The Shining a prequel and I want to cut his face

Books don't get any more commercial and anti-chap than Stephen Fucking King (unless you want to talk about Dan Brown, but you can't compare the two because Dan Brown's not literary).

Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public.

If I've learned one thing today, it's that teenage girls make Moriarty look like a babe in the woods." Detective Stephen Moran