As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

I write in American slang.

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Is anything accidental?

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

I was a precocious reader.

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I never learned to read music.

I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

What began as a revolt in response to the King of Great Britain's repeated injuries against the colonies, soon became a passionate and glorious call to fight for the beginnings of a new country.

Everything has to be done to build some sort of international democracy. We've seen only the tiniest beginnings of that.

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

I will never forget my humble beginnings as a Laker Girl. It was probably one of the most fun jobs I ever had.

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

I was having trouble making ends meet, and my beginnings weren't meeting either.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.

Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.

Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Beginnings are always messy.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.

It was about this time that I began experiencing the beginnings of my battles with an anxiety disorder. We were touring a lot and there were some developing personal problems within the band.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest.The blessing is in the seed.

For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce and locomotion first brought the Chinese people into unavoidable contact with the strange ways and novel goods of the Western peoples.