I do like the research part of writing, I must admit.

All models are wrong, but some are useful.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

One man gathers what another man spills

All models are approximations. Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful. However, the approximate nature of the model must always be borne in mind.

I hate love. Hate being in love. I never want it to happen to me again.

Statisticians, like artists, have the bad habit of falling in love with their models.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

The only way to know how a complex system will behave-after you modify it-is to modify it and see how it behaves.

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

It takes a lot of doing to die.

I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too, and that maketh him very wary.

. . . for beauty stands In the admiration only of weak minds Led captive. Cease to admire, and all her plumes Fall flat and shrink into a trivial toy, At every sudden slighting quite abash'd.

I feel my task is done. I feel a sense of satisfaction, ... It's the moment and I seized it.

The Katrina matter was terrible.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

I attended public school with the same group of kids from K through 12.