Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

The two words expressed volumes.

There is something about the defencelessness of youth that moves me to tears. Youth is so vulnerable. It is so ruthless--so sure. So generous and so demanding.

It is the courage, the insistence, the ruthless force of youth.

His mind was betraying him. Phantoms not heard from in a thousand years rousing slowly from their sleep.

She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Time is an abstraction which, on earth, exists only for the human brain it has evolved.

Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.

To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.

Life is too short to do anything that's not challenging.

Read Euler, read Euler. He is the master of us all.