What occurs after revelation and paralysis?

When they give you things, ask yourself why. When you're grateful to them for giving you the things you should have anyway, ask yourself why.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

I see music as an aid. It overcomes my internal editor, especially when the music evokes the character or the mood I'm trying to build.

When we wake, it is because something, some event, some pinprick even, disturbs the edges of what we’ve taken as reality.

I think I got a complete picture of what the lives of scientists are like. My father is of the opinion that if scientists are allowed to follow their nose, eventually it results in something. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen. What I came out of it with, in a non-cynical way, was that the scientific process is as messy as anything else. There's nothing wrong with that. That's just the way it is.

Some questions will ruin you if you are denied the answer long enough.