I must study politics and war, tapestry and porcelain.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.