One must be honest with himself. Then it will be much better than it is now.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Teaching mathematics, like teaching any art, requires the ability to inspire the student. Inspiration requires marketing, and marketing requires stirring communication.

You could heal him?" I asked, glancing at Hal."Could, " said the wysling, "but won't, until I get what's

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.

People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you are dressed in any particular way at all, you are revealed rather than hidden.

Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

I write songs all the time in my room. I play them for my friends and family.

A big part of the story is American imperialism, and the flip side of that is the building up of the national security state here at home.