I don't ride the subway. Either I walk, or I take a New York City taxi.
Occasionally people will look at me and do a double take and they'll look at me like they're trying to think where they know me from.
I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
Fate seems to be taking me in some even stranger directions.
Reading is a technology for perspective-taking. When someone else's thoughts are in your head, you are observing the world from that person's vantage point.
It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.
Writing long hand is the last refuge. One needs the time it takes to put pencil to paper and let it run along the ruled line.
I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.
God put us here, on this carnival ride. We close our eyes never knowing where it'll take us next.
But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, with his martial cloak around him.
The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
I'm Muslim the way many of my Jewish friends are Jewish: I avoid pork, and I take the big holidays off.
I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a character's and let his perceptions take over.
It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
I wouldn't say I'm a very original thinker, but if I have a good experience with something, I'll want to take it further or adapt it in some way.
As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when they are well-designed.
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
