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Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.
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Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.
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Motivation is just this potion to create stuff, a compulsion to express the truth of my own experiences in this life.
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Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.
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I watch a man shoot pool for an hour. If he misses more than one shot, I know I can beat him.
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I believe an invitation from the Commission on Presidential Debates is similar to a draft notice - a civic responsibility.
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The more we study the major problems of our time, the more we come to realise that they cannot be understood in isolation. They are systemic problems, which means that they are interconnected and interdependent.
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You get that love from the people. It lets me know that all the madness I go through, all the stuff that the business has to offer with all its madness; it makes it worthwhile.
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In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.
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Carlisle has a theory...he believes that we all bring something of our strongest human traits with us into the next life, where they are intensified - like our minds, and our senses.
