I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

You don't need a plan; you just need to be present.

It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!

I am a professor at the computer science department, but I don't know how to use a computer, not even for Email.

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

There is nothing that love cannot achieve, and there is nothing that love cannot sacrifice.

I never made "feminist art," and if I did it was not deliberate.

Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

I read a lot of prose poetry and get inspired by more-so just a state of mind.