Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
hit home trying
At the Home Run Derby, you're expected to hit home runs. You're up there trying to hit home runs.
creative routine creative-thought
Routine kills creative thought.
poetic mathematical homeopathy
Homeopathy seemed . . . both mathematical and poetic.
making-love touching together
So if we're all quarks and electrons ..." he begins. What?" We could make love and it would be nothing more than quarks and electrons rubbing together." Better than that," I say. "Nothing really 'rubs together' in the microscopic world. Matter never really touches other matter, so we could make love without any of our atoms touching at all. Remember that electrons sit on the outside of atoms, repelling other electrons. So we could make love and actually repel each other at the same time.
encouragement love-is orchids
For other people, love is like some rare orchid that can only grow in one place under a certain set of conditions. For me it's like bindweed. It grows with no encouragement at all, under any conditions, and just strangles everything else.
honesty authenticity bigs
Honesty and authenticity are a big deal for me.
theoretical-physics frustrated way
In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.
nice guy nice-guy
I'm always playing the nice guy in most of the projects that I do.
american-journalist covering
I'm covering the worst president in American history.
ultimately
I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.
american-journalist
We won't really know what will happen until it happens.
call favor lobbyists open organized states united
We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.
call far great people presidents though
Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.
care president reagan
To my mind, a president should care about all people, and he didn't, which is why I will always feel Reagan lacked soul.