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When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.

The way back to yourself is through refusal and rejection.

It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

I always wanted to scuba dive. I used to scuba dive undercover like black Aquaman.

Trying to show that you have mental illness to somebody who’s never had it is like trying to describe a new color to the colorblind

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Spreading out the particle into a string is a step in the direction of making everything we're familiar with fuzzy. You enter a completely new world where things aren't at all what you're used to.

For me, 'Diamond Necklace' is a commercial attempt, as it has songs and glamour.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

An anaesthetic is a poet-killer.

My dad, who is a screenwriter, showed me all these great movies. He showed me 'E.T.' when I was 2-years-old, and I just kind of progressed from there. It was also my brother. We'd always watch movies together, and he'd do these voices and he'd always want to do skits and he'd come up with stuff with me.

All I'm doing is rearranging the curtains in the insane asylum.

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

The popular dystopian vision of AI is wrong for one simple reason: it equates intelligence with autonomy. That is, it assumes a smart computer will create its own goals and have its own will and will use its faster processing abilities and deep databases to beat humans at their own game.

I've worked in government. I've worked in competitive New York litigation, I've worked as a writer and reporte..

Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away. I mean is it gonna erode your ability, you know, to make money? Are you gonna somehow get confused about what you're trying to do?

The Senior Tour is a good concept, although frankly I'm not astounded at its continued success. It gives a lot of guys an opportunity to extend their careers.