Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.

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!

An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I'm offended by things and take pathetic little stands against them.