Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.

All honest labor becomes easy; it only becomes hard when done with unwillingness.

If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.

I taught myself Russian, which was very, very useful, especially for poetry and in fact if you can't read Pushkin in Russian, you're really missing something.

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.