Only keep still, wait, and hear, and the world will open.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

Only white men have the luxury of ignoring race.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.

The oldest principle of composition: repeat everything.