The Midwest is such a tabula rasa.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.