One makes discoveries about oneself but more often one makes up discoveries.

People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

There's no problem so great it can't be solved. If it can't be solved, it's not a problem, it's reality.

You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.

I'm kind of embarrassed by how quickly I adjusted to L.A. I really love it. It's so pleasant.

The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

I would say that American poetry has always been a poetry of personal testimony.

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.