Mano Vaistine Quotes & Sayings

But I'm not a small-literary-novel kind of guy, and once I'd developed the world in the first couple of hundred pages, I felt that there was potential here to go on and write an engaging story set in that world. So that's what I did. This probably ruins things both for the people who want small literary novels and for those who want action-packed epics, but anyway, it's what I wrote. — Neal Stephenson

Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia. — Peter Costello

Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this. — Philip K. Dick

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become I. — Eckhart Tolle

The Italians always know that I'm not Italian. — Jhumpa Lahiri