It is simple and brutal: a person can get used to anything, even to killing.
To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.
If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.
Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals.
A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.
My greatest wish — other than salvation — was to have a book. A long book with a never-ending story. One I could read again and again, with new eyes and a fresh understanding each time.