Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he was suddenly attacked by a multiplication problem or something.

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.

I listened to make sure I was meeting the minimum requirement to stay out of jail, so to speak.

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

The poet is a creator, not an iconoclast, and never will tamely endeavor to say in prose what can only be expressed in song.

Heaven hath many tongues to talk of it, more eyes to behold it, but few hearts that rightly affect it.

At the end of the day, my hat goes off to anybody trying to run for president, or trying to be president, because you're never going to please everybody, it's not possible.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

I didn't come in as a writer that found producers, I came in under producers. So I've always respected the actual production process and producers in general.