In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.
I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.
Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
The chief difficulty of modern theoretical physics resides not in the fact that it expresses itself almost exclusively in mathematical symbols, but in the psychological difficulty of supposing that complete nonsense can be seriously promulgated and transmitted by persons who have sufficient intelligence of some kind to perform operations in differential and integral calculus.
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.
I'm a Star Wars fan from way back, and I love where the stories are going now.
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult.
Let's stop feeling so guilty about global warming