The constant expansion has diluted the talent. Other than that, it's still the same game.
My favourite authors are Milan Kundera and Jeanette Winterson.
Once you accept that we're all imperfect it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
I'm not interested in what other people are doing. That's their business.
All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.
There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
[The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
I'm a wiseass and a smartass, and I always have been.
I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That's so many pages longhand.