I rely on a backbone of books and, for the most part, it's enough to keep me quiet, half-drugged with dreams of imaginary worlds.

I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Do your clothes make you feel happy, beautiful, comfortable in your skin, handsome, confident, or powerful?

The finest teaching touches in a student a spring neither teacher nor student could possibly have preconceived.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

The central activity of engineering, as distinguished from science, is the design of new devices, processes and systems.

When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.

Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.

As we all know, lasting relationships can't be rushed.