"When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters."

"The odors perceived by the ant seem to lead to a highly standardized course of conduct; but the value of a …"

"The map is not the territory … The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the …"

"No matter how angry, never use harsh words on others; for those could be the last words you'll ever say to …"

"Since all of the possibilities of a terrestrial origin have been either ruled out or seem improbable, and s…"

"What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, b…"

"Young writers take that most communal object, language, and perform on it that most individual act, creation."