Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

Even while it's true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons - as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell us - it does not logically follow that humans are best described only as pieces and parts.