Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.

A cat is only technically an animal, being divine.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

God gives all God asks all

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

I was able to grow up and do silly things and have a life with only a small amount of public scrutiny.

Mental illness leaves a huge legacy, not just for the person suffering it but for those around them.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

I was a mechanic at a go-cart place, a deejay at a roller rink, a telemarketer in New York, a grocery bagger.

Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.