The function of thought is to guide action.
I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.
The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
Technology will redefine how we extract and utilize coal resources.
The only way to understand another person's reality is to experience it yourself.
The most real thing that human beings can touch is the silence in loneliness.