The novel is a very democratic form. It allows for the expression of many voices, many points of view.

I don't want to be a product of my environment. I want my environment to be a product of me.

I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.

The integration of energy and digital technologies will redefine the industry.

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.