You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em, but you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em.
The most important tool in science is not the microscope, but the mind.
I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
The novel is the great modern epic because it can contain everything: poetry, history, philosophy, politics.