Reading
I love reading, and I find that it helps me clear my mind. Whether it is the erudite musings of Richard Feynman, Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov; the powerful story-telling of Paul Bowles, Garcia Marquez and A. B. Yehoshua; the lyrical prose of John Banville, Jose Saramago and Vikram Seth; the potent prolificacy of V.S. Naipaul, Ian McEwan and Philip Roth; the Zeitgeist captured in the works of T. C. Boyle, Michael Chabon and Annie Proulx; the poignant works of Rohington Mistry; the sustained frisson in the works of Philip Ball, Brian Greene and Simon Singh; the frenetic worlds created by Robert Heinlein and William Gibson; Alex Ross' deconstruction of music; or the mesmerizing travel writings of Pico Iyer -- these writers have left the world, and my understanding of it, a little better than it would be otherwise.