Pham was overwhelmed by the other things that Gunnar Larson had to say, the advice that might be worthless but that had the stench of wisdom. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
This was the sort of desperate hallucination he must guard against. If you raise your desires high enough, certainty can grow out of the background noise. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
So what do you do when your dream dies?When your dream dies, you give it up. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
What do you do when your dream dies?Dreams die in every life. Everyone gets old. There is promise in the beginning when life seems so bright. The promise fades when the years get short. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)
The essence of real creativity is a certain playfulness, a flitting from idea to idea without getting bogged down by fixated demands. Of course, you don’t always get what you thought you were asking for. From this era on, I think invention will be the parent of necessity—and not the other way around. A Deepness in the Sky (1999)