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"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives."
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"I don't know how anyone gets anything done in cities. How can you live somewhere like London or New York, when there are 81 things to do every night? Awful. Give me solitude and space any time."

"The jungle is alive. It's dangerous as a living nightmare and brimful of hostility."

"Even if the climate change is not real, its funds are real."

"Whenever they are given the choice, some people choose a bath over a shower; they, too, would like to do their bit to waste water."

"Earth is not a private club; it is a universal club. Being born allows you to receive a membership card; you don't have to do anything else for it. And it is the most beautiful club that you will ever find. Once you have realized that you are a member, don't you want to keep it clean and comfortable for fellow members to use? I know I do."

"I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue."

"You can't change the world you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn the water off when you're brushing your teeth. You can do small things."

"Surround yourself with those conducive to you being your highest self."

"Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it."
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"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other."

"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life."

"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms."

"I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor."

"If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious."

"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work."

"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written."
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