Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.
You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.
There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication.
To say that you can 'have experience,' means, for one thing, that your past plays into and affects your present, and that it defines your capacity for future experience. As a social scientist, you have to control this rather elaborate interplay, to capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman
There are no flowers in the Moon; that's why the Moon is a boring place!
Obsolescence is the moment of superabundance.
The way I like to measure greatness is. . . How many people can you make want to be better?