My first introduction to chemistry came at a quite early age through my mother's elder brother.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

There is no more moving a professional relationship than that between a law clerk and a Supreme Court justice. As a place to work, the court is unique in its intimacy and intensity.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Poetry, whose material is language, is perhaps the most human and least worldly of the arts, the one in which the end product remains closest to the thought that inspired it.

Some things go slow, slow, slow, and then - wham! - they're over.

Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.

Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.