Just the fact that Hilary Clinton won the popular vote by such a large number gives some validation to the impulse to stand firm. If we don't, I think within a year administration is pretty much going to dismantle American society as we've known it. I'm not sure that we're able to stop it from happening, but I don't think people should just roll over and passively watch it happen.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happen.

It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.

There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

I'm in constant inner dialogue with my father still.