Give me a half hour's conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

Sometimes I defy flower anatomy & other times I try and replicate it intricately!

A good book should make you think at the end, not just give a solution to the problem at the end.

Plimpton was a presence. He looked for ways in which he could make himself ridiculous. That made him a great storyteller.

I tend to feel if people say they're going to do something, they will, if given the chance.

Our success as consultants will depend upon the essential rightness of the advice we give and our capacity for convincing those in authority that it is good.

Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many hands in different ages.

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

You can't assume that kindness is an inherited trait. It is learned behavior.

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which, of course, means to write only when he has something urgent to say.

I'm truly flattered and honored that I get to be Raven for life.