Let's look at what the books are that are being produced. More and more they are being made like movies. To sell. They are being tested out.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.

There is a lack of context in contemporary education. And contemporary consideration - because we live in those interiorities so much. Especially young kids who live by surfing the Web.

I love baseball. What I love about baseball is that you are always waiting.

The best defense is a good story.

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave.

What to know about pain is how little we do to deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.

I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.

Clarification is not to clarify things. It is to put one’s self in the clear (Sir Humphrey Appleby)

A camera is a save button for the minds eye.

Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions

They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside.

Constant prayer quickly straightens out our thoughts.

Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.

If I had cared about her as I should have, as I thought I did, how could I have let her go?

The Department of Cell Biology at Johns Hopkins was founded and directed by Tom Pollard, an engaging young scientist with remarkable energy and enthusiasm.