Doing something does not require discipline. It creates its own discipline - with a little help from caffeine.

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and, perhaps, a vision of some single slice of the beauty and mystery of things, of their complexity, fascination, and unexpectedness.

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Writing a book is like rearing children -- willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love.

The way we live our days, is the way we live our lives.