Quotes About Exploration

There's no reason why a writer shouldn't explore and use different genres.

I just think there's no reason to limit yourself to one sport.

The attractive thing about rock climbing: There are no rules.

You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.

There are no rules. And there are no boundaries in terms of where your imagination can take you. That is so necessary for music.

The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

In mapping, where I have no sense of direction, my needs are likely to coincide with the needs of lots of people.

I like to go and watch 'Blade Runner,' which made no sense but which I loved going into that world. I think people loved going into the world of 'Dune' with all of its problems.

If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

My concept when making music is that there is no border between music and noise.

I found a way to connect with lots of instruments rather than just fixating on one of them. I just loved making noise on anything.

I saw Double Leopards play at my school and realized there were other ways to approach noisy music that weren't necessarily aggressive. That became a very important concept for me as a musician. I don't think I would have been that interested in creating and performing my own music if it wasn't for this group.

I'm a nomad.

I think I was a nomad in another life.

I move around, like a true Kazakh nomad.

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

I've always been fascinated by the brain. I wrote a lot about brain-tech in my first non-fiction book, 'More Than Human.' So when I decided to write science fiction, that was the technology I gravitated towards.

Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.

With non-fiction, there is the struggle to be accurate. With fiction, it is a bit different: the desire to let imagination take you to new places.

I read both in French and English and often a couple of books at once, mixing fiction and non-fiction.