Born on August 28th

"I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible."

"It'll take a while for all those strange old books that I love to show up on digital: books that aren't current bestsellers but aren't public-domain freebies, either."

"Someone asked me the other day what it feels like to see all my 'old stuff' reappearing, at long last, in digital. And I had to smile because to me it doesn't feel like 'old stuff.'"

"I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers."

"Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both."

"Every revolution has its counterrevolution - that is a sign the revolution is for real."

"Prestige is the shadow of money and power."

"People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages."

"Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions."

"Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests."

"America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub."

"The principal cause of war is war itself."

"What ordinary men are directly aware of and what they try to do are bounded by the private orbits in which they live; their visions and their powers are limited."

"The nearest the modern general or admiral comes to a small-arms encounter of any sort is at a duck hunt in the company of corporation executives at the retreat of Continental Motors, Inc."

"In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth."

"What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?"

"You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time."

"When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music."

"If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy."

"It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time."

"I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another record that was devoid of meaningful content."

"I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect."

"For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically."

"I need to start honing in on projects that I want to devote my time to and not put my energies into the unattainable ones."

"I've since become really good at overwhelming myself."

"I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal."

"The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active."

"You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second."

"I like the idea of taking off like a bird."

"I have this sensation of being in flight all the time, but being on stage is like creating a sanctuary in which you can completely lose yourself. The bits of your personality that you keep under wraps in ordinary life, you can let them run free."