I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That's how I've gotten to where I am.

"In the end, all we have are the stories we tell."

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.