The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.

I have the world's best job. I get paid to hang out in my imagination all day.

The death of the music business was insane, but audio recordings have been around now for maybe 120 years. Books have been around for, what, nine centuries? So they're more entrenched than music.

Reading is the creative center of a writer's life." -

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.