My fate has been that what I undertook was fully understood only after the fact.

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

A fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics

Smooth shapes are very rare in the wild but extremely important in the ivory tower and the factory.

Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

A fractal is a mathematical set or concrete object that is irregular or fragmented at all scales...

If you have a hammer, use it everywhere you can, but I do not claim that everything is fractal.

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

Beautiful, damn hard, increasingly useful. That's fractals.

One who comes to the Court must come to adore, not to protest. That's the new gloss on the 1st Amendment.

I remember my first taste of American big movies was 'Ghost Rider.' I'm in two little scenes. But for those two little scenes they had 400 extras, upside-down stunt cars, and a fire brigade.

And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.

I'm the best at talking trash I'm also the best at going out there and backing it up.

Peace comes not by establishing a calm outward setting so much as by inwardly surrendering to whatever the setting.

In every human endeavor, persistence is everything.

When you're reading the news and sometimes you just think, "How bad can things get"?

I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

What happened to us in September, 2001, is a microcosmic but painful and powerful example of the fact we live in an inter-dependent world that is not yet an integrated global community.