"In science, self-satisfaction is death. Personal self-satisfaction is the death of the scientist. Collective self-satisfaction is the death of the research. It is restlessness, anxiety, dissatisfaction, agony of mind that nourish science."

-- Jacques Monod

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“As for disciplineâ€”it's important, but sort of overrated. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Because your writing will always disappoint you. Your laziness will always disappoint you.”
“I don't believe in director's cuts where you make things longer. The coolest thing was when the Coen brothers did a director's cut of 'Blood Simple,' and they made it shorter.”

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“No command of art, No toil, can help you hear; Earth's minstrelsy falls clear But on the listening heart.”
“I am more at peace than I've ever known myself to be. My connectedness to the world is more intense. I am more attentive to the humanity around me.”

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“The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.”
“Find happiness in making others happy.”
“My mission is not to give an apologetic for why I'm trying to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. My mission is to impact people's lives and use the Gospel to transform. I want to be on that mission and not explaining it all the time.”
“If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.”

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