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

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

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.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.