If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office