I'm motivated by the laughter, honestly. It's really not about the money or being more famous. I really love creativity.
I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.
So I did quit coffee and I did quit smoking. But I haven't managed that with drinking!
It might be a bad thing, not to know what's going on in the world. I can't say I really approve of it.
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.
. . to a poet, the human community is like the community of birds to a bird, singing to each other. Love is one of the reasons we are singing to one another, love of language itself, love of sound, love of singing itself, and love of the other birds.
The right wing walks the walk; the left wing taxes the people that walk the walk
But evil is a cunning force. It can find the weakness in any man, even the bravest. [. . . ] It only takes a single weak moment to let evil in.
Mathematicians are beginning to view order and chaos as two distinct manifestations of an underlying determinism. And neither state exists in isolation. The typical system can exist in a variety of states, some ordered, some chaotic. Instead of two opposed polarities, there is a continuous spectrum. As harmony and discord combine in musical beauty, so order and chaos combine in mathematical [and physical] beauty.
You have to be honest about who you are.