Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms us from the past, declares an amnesty, brackets and sets aside the old puzzles. Sing a new song. Start a new life, get a girl, look into her shadowy eyes, smile.