There is a right physical size for every idea..

For me, it works best to plan just enough to come up with a good direction to head out in. Then I start down the path as soon as I can, without a ver….

I'm unfortunately very verbose too often..

I sometimes begin a drawing with no preconceived problem to solve, with only the desire to use pencil on paper... but as my eye takes in what is so p….

Beauty is where you find it..

When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments have conspi….

For black America needs a politics whose first mission isn't the reinforcement of the idea of black America; and a discourse of race that isn't centr….

That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him..

Men of genius supply the substance of history, while the mass of men are but the critical filter, the limiting, slackening, passive force needed for ….

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself..

After reading The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's stunning work of scholarship, one gains the terrible realization that, for people of color, the ….

I love Twitter! At first I made fun of it, because it is very narcissistic, and there's already so much narcissism flowing in this industry, I was li….

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.….

It is often said that experiments should be made without preconceived ideas. That is impossible. Not only would it make every experiment fruitless, b….

You have no idea what portrait painters suffer from the vanity of their sitters..

Time is the supreme illusion. It is but the inner prism by which we decompose being and life, the mode under which we perceive successively what is s….

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea..

The general uncertainty about the prospects of medical treatment is socially handled by rigid entry requirements. These are designed to reduce the un….

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although I didn't understand it, I lov….

I don't abandon stories once I've started working on them. Once I sit down and start a story, I'll be damned if I'm going to give up on it. But I do ….

I wanted to have a place and a space, and a building, in which to create a season of work I am here because the idea of a theatrical home is very app….