I rested my head on the wall behind me and closed my eyes, wishing my life had a button: Ignore All.

You totally need to watch the news.""Can't.""Why?""It's too depressing.""Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.

I tend over the years to have developed a certain hesitancy about believing that headlines tell the whole story.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

I always carry yeast flakes and bran with me when I travel.

What painting is, is exactly what people see.