“You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way.”

“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.”

“You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea, because you forget that the good idea has limits.”

“There's no better way to inform and expand you mind on a regular basis than to get into the habit of reading good literature.”

“...It's better to feel the world around you. People let themselves become too desensitized. How can you write if you don't feel anything?”

“It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.”