He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison.
If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.
How fortunate we are to exist in the moneyless economy of poetry! When you take money out of the equation, anything goes and nobody cares. It's truly free.
Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.
My favorite method of encryption is chunking revolutionary documents inside a mess of JPEG or MP3 code and emailing it off as an "image" or a "song. " But besides functionality, code also possesses literary value. If we frame that code and read it through the lens of literary criticism, we will find that the past hundred years of modernist and postmodernist writing have demonstrated the artistic value of similar seemingly arbitrary arrangements of letters.
I've been trolled lots on Twitter. But I understand trolls for what they are and I don't let them get to me. They take my bait, so I'm in charge of the discourse.
It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
He had an affectionate heart. He must love somebody.
It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story.
We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.