How you go over hurdle one should be how you go over hurdle ten. You need the strength to accelerate, and to maintain form.

When you envision yourself doing something, you'll be surprised at how much that helps you to actually do it.

And then eventually you wake up, fully rested, ready to fly again :)

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

I learned that if you bring black people together, you bring them together with a song. To this day, I don't understand how people think they can bring anybody together without a song.

I guess I'll retire someday if I live that long.

If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.

I have never thought that I have sacrificed anything being a writer. That might not be true, maybe I have sacrificed something. Maybe I've given something up, but I can't think of it.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

I'm happy to just sit in a cafe and watch people. It's my favorite thing to do, for sure.