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“I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.”

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“It seemed to me that half of life’s problems would be solved if one of us had a vagina.”

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What we can do should never by itself determine what we choose to do, yet this is the way technology tends to work.

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.

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For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

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Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

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