I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

We can bring heaven on the earth when we have compassion for all living beings.

Christianity is such a silly religion.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

Sam was waiting for her,his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek," Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra." "My dream date.

When you have kids, I think it makes them feel safer and be in a space to grow more and recognize patterns when routines exist.

What matters is the face you show the world, not the quaking mess behind it.

I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read.

The heart is pure theater throbbing in its cage palpably as any nightingale.

I don't mind competition at all. I mean, the record business is the most competitive business in the world, probably. So I'm used to that. In a weird way, it kind of makes you work harder.