I tell you these stories because these things happen to everyone. It's not about being starched or polished or cute or polite. It's about having ears that stick out, about breaking yet another glass. It's about seeing something for the first time and making a million mistakes and not ever getting completely discouraged.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Michael Pollan is a champion. In all ways. A man of great integrity, humor, and common sense and kindness.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.

It's almost impossible to reconcile the realities of how one feels during the day, hour by hour. But I approach things not cynically.