The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.

His flesh took paleness from his bones.

The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again.

The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.