I've worked as someone's deputy, and now it's time for me to run something. It's time for me to run my own shop.
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.
You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.
Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.
If I'm a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that's going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.
I was formed by 'The Forsyte Saga' marathon. There was something about seeing all those events telescoped that was unbelievably moving: that sense of time as something that can be tinkered with.
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
My usual route is, I do a play at South Coast Rep, then there's time between and I revise it, and then I take it to New York.
The 20s are like the stem cell of human development: the pluripotent moment when any of several outcomes is possible. Decisions and actions during this time have lasting ramifications.
Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time.
I see that idea that we need a new form as something critical. I mean, we do need to invent and not be benchmarking all the time. That's important to me.
We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.
Now where people are - at least the people I talk to - they are focused on issues of trust. Accountability also comes up, to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
We must trust our own thinking. Trust where we're going. And get the job done.
Scientists search for truth. Philosophers search for morality. A criminal trial searches for only one result: proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
I have a box of evidence that's going to a certain person should anything happen to me, so if you top me off, it's still going to that person, and the truth will come out.
Stephen: We're still pretty close to Johnstown. Those rednecks are probably enjoying this whole thing.
[pointing his gun at Stephen] Peter: You never point a gun at anyone, mister. Scary, isn't it? Isn't it?
Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.
