Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Every increase in your knowledge is a simultaneous decrease. You learn and you unlearn at the same time. A new certainty is a new doubt as well.

Something I’ve realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we’re smart about it.

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of 'star' and I didn't particularly want to be portrayed as one.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'