Honestly I didn't have the patience for biology or history in an academic sense but I always liked the kind of big questions.
I don't want technology to take me so far that I don't have to use my brain...
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.