Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or label it as bad.

There is chaos behind the civility, of course.

Agitation is that part of our intellectual life where vitality results; there ideas are born, breed and bring forth.

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

It's going to be really weird to know that people are going to actually know my name, that's going to be strange.

Slave holding is very unusual among the English-speaking peoples. Canadians didn't do it. Australians didn't do it. The Democratic Party and the states they controlled did it!

I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science.