Actually, I was beginning to think that even I should be able to solve .153847 mysteries. It was the 38 part, I suspected, that would be the problem.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

Oh, America is slipping away from the rest of the consciousness of the planet - slipping away.

Sometimes, when you want to make a difference in a person's life, stay out of it.

Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.

There is no state of satisfaction, because to himself no man is a success.

But you can’t live your life worried about dying all the time. If you do, you’re dead already.

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

Being an actor lets me be a million different things.

Discoveries are made by pursuing possibilities suggested by existing knowledge.