Just as I had long suspected, a person didn't really need math for anything anyway. Maybe some people did. Some limited people.

I didn't begin life hating my grandmother. Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.

I’m not capable of suffering completely. I never have. It goes only down to a certain point and then it stops. As long as there is that untouched point, it’s not really pain.

My affliction has been... I can make something or draw something or design something better than I can explain it.

Songs don't have to be about going out on Saturday night and having a good rink-up and driving home and crashing cars. A lot of what I've done is about alienation... about where you fit in society.

I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

It's one thing believing in yourself, it's another thing having other people believe in you, and that is the greatest gift, honestly.

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God’s power or presence or purity.

Getting the right people in the right jobs is a lot more important than developing a strategy.

Most things in this world don´t work, aspirin do.

To me experimental fiction ultimately is about the experiment and I'm not interested in experiments for their own sake.

Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits.