The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

The tender sentiment of the 'one and only' has less to do with constancy of heart than with singleness of opportunity.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair--or the height of a battle against boredom.

The only constant in our marriage is the edge of the cliff we're hanging on to, killing time until we tire ourselves out and give in to our inevitable collapse.

He wasn’t a good person, but I painted him to be and since I painted it, I believed it.

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.

I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.

Every idea must have a visible enfolding.

You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground.