"I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music."

“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”

Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks”

“When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening.”

“The Tao is near and people seek it far away.”

“I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.”

Source : "Fifteen Questions with Nicholas A. Christakis". Interview with Stephanie M. Woo, www.thecrimson.com. October 20, 2011.

“In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.”

“Don't ever discourage someone from trying to better their life and health”

“My name's Jean Tannen, and I'm the ambush.”

Source : Scott Lynch (2006). “The Lies of Locke Lamora”, p.291, Spectra