The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

Thought is the toil of the intelligence, revery its voluptuousness. To replace thought with revery is to confound a poison with a food.

I know you're there. I can detect your presence each time it closes in on mine.

Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics.

Sachin is the greatest role model I've ever met.

You have to listen to the movie while you're making it. I think that's important.

John von Neumann was the only student I was ever afraid of.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

Freedom from desire leads to inner peace.

Anybody who has had experience of poetesses knows that they may forgive a punch on the jaw, but never a suggestion that they would be wiser to give up versifying.