To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

As Siri says, who is deeply involved with neuroscience, emotion consolidates memory, and I think that's true.

I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and it's been a very split kind of response.

Escaping into a film is not like escaping into a book. Books force you to give something back to them, to exercise your intelligence and imagination, where as you can watch a film-and even enjoy it-in a state of mindless passivity.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

Even when I'm just sitting at my desk, I have to get up every twenty minutes or so and walk around, walk around, walk around, and then I can go back to the page. I can't just sit there for hours at a time. Language comes out of the body as much as the mind.