“Cooking is actually quite aggressive and controlling and sometimes, yes, there is an element of force-feeding going on.”
“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”
“But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing?”
“I love hearing people laugh.”
“Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.”
“The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.”
“If you've got a talent, protect it.”
“Invented languages have often been created in tandem with entire invented universes, and most conlangers come to their craft by way of fantasy and science fiction.”
“The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.”
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
“In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.”
“Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.”
