I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and r...
Fred Madison: Where's Alice? Mystery Man: Alice who? Her name is Renee. If she's told you her name is Alice, she's lying. [filled with rage] Mystery Man: [shouts] And your name? What the fuck is your name?
Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world.
All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
The Soul selects her own Society.
There is no life without death.
Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?
People are only what they think of themselves.
The phrase *You complete me* is nonsensical. A couple is a *we* … not a complete *me.*
Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assem...
We should tend our freedom wisely.
Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.
Reality continues to ruin my life.
It is easy to be wise after the event.
Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory.
Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies...
Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.
