It was a big question: how I would die — was it going to be cold or hunger or... it was a question that I always had in my head.

这是个大问题：我会怎么死——会被冻死还是被饿死呢？这是我头脑里一直闪现的一个问题。

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Sometime between 2008 and 2009, or perhaps before then, I got it in my head that the best poetry was political in nature, the best fiction was psychological or sociological in nature, and the best non-fiction, well, was non-fiction!

FORBES: Why Alternative Energy, Part Two

After making that first toy, it was eight inches tall, but in my head, it was like I'd just made a building or a boat.

WSJ: Up in the Air | Making It

The next day we were sitting on the deck and I was trying to get him to tell me stories or talk to me about ingredients, and it was like banging my head against a wall all day long, in the hot sun, with a hangover.

WSJ: The Chef and the Critic