"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should..."
"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
"I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from."
"My dad's a biophysicist. My brother is a computer guy. His wife works at Microsoft."
"There are a lot of different ways of building a prosperous society, and some of them use much less energy than others. And it is possible and more practical to talk about rebuilding systems to use much less energy than it is to think about trying to meet greater demands of energy through clean energy alone."
"He who loves the more is the inferior and must suffer."
"I like old Disney films that have an edge to them."
"Racist assumptions, ethnolinguistic assumptions of inferiority or superiority, are as old as mankind."
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
"I love social media, and it is an important part of how we make change happen. But we can't retweet ourselves out of our most serious problems."
"Old habits are strong and jealous."
"There are no failed ideas, just ideas that haven't found their moment yet."
"Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people."
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
"It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing."
"After a bath, we all love to dry off with a towel. But do we need it to survive? No. It's a luxury."
"When I finished grad school, I moved to Chicago proper, and I was at all the different improv schools, taking classes or interning."
"You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'"
"Attention may sound dull, but it is an essential aspect of consciousness. In fact, it governs what it is that we turn out to be conscious of, and therefore plays a part in the coming into being of whatever exists for us."
"God tipped the country and all the fruits and nuts rolled west."
"W. P. Kinsella, who was born on a farm near Edmunton, Alberta, has earned wide recognition for his wild imagination and rash humor as a writer."
"Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so."
"The big, defining feature of Palmares Tres government is its system of summer kings. The idea is that women 'Aunties' rule, led by a queen with a term limit of 10 years. Men aren't entirely shut out from this system - in fact, they have one of the most important roles in the government - but it's strictly delimited."
"I think, in anyone's career, you have to map out some sort of strategy of steps that take you closer to the career you want."
"For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape."
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
