Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.

...this marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.

They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.

To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has already been.