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“Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.”
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“Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology.”
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“What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.”
Source : Scott Westerfeld (2014). “Afterworlds”, p.266, Simon and Schuster
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“As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.”
Source : Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.198, A&C Black
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“The time has come for all good men to rise above principle.”
Source : In T. Harry Williams 'Huey Long' (1969)
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“The belief that words have a meaning of their own account is a relic of primitive word magic, and it is still a part of the air we breathe in nearly every discussion.”
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“What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this." That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.”
Source : Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. March 6, 2005. 
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“Im not trying to do conceptual art.”
