Real data is messy. ...It's all very noisy out there. Very hard to spot the tune. Like a piano in the next room, it's playing your song, but unfortunately it's out of whack, some of the strings are missing, and the pianist is tone deaf and drunk- I mean, the noise! Impossible!

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not.

We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!