As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
You want magic to feel real.
When a new writer comes onto a project, he'll make wholesale changes just to mark the territory or for greater credit.
I never stopped loving the deeper sciences, and I read as deeply into lay science as I can.
I try to keep up, and the scientific perspective is always part of my creative approach.
I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its own sake, to get as close to an understanding as you can.
Everything I learn about the world, whether it's the simple arcana of how commercial products are manufactured and designed and how they reach our shelves and where the chips come from and who does the code, to more profound things like whether or not a black hole might be penetrable as a wormhole, whether or not universes might be accessible from here, whether space can be stretched and compressed to enable faster-than-light travel without violating physical law - all of those things have tremendous story potential.
Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself permission to relax, people will feel more relaxed around you; your environment will become more harmonious. Balance - between work and pleasure, giving and receiving, seriousness and levity - creates a happy healthy life.
Moving forward is not based upon your past; your future is exclusively determined by the decisions you make now, in this moment.
Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.
It's hardly in a body's pow'r,To keep, at times, frae being sour.