I’m not afraid of death, but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine, but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. He does not have to struggle with the crowded pulsations of a fecund imagination. On the contrary, he is almost devoid of imagination.
You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.
Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
