I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
I was gaining weight very rapidly and read about the idea of restricting carbohydrates as an alternative to going hungry. I had a big appetite, so that was the only thing I would even consider.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
I didn't even know about amateur boxing, period.
It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.
Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
I may write about place and displacement, but what I'm really writing about is dispersion, evasion, ambivalence: not so much a subject as a move in everything I write.
I've always had a lot of ambivalence about fame and celebrity.
'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.
I wasn't remotely ambivalent about marrying the person I was marrying, but I was 35. I was deep into my adulthood, and I identified as single.
I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.
Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.
In 2004, President Bush gave Prime Minister Sharon certain guarantees about American policy, but the Obama administration treated those as a kind of private letter having no binding policy impact.
How about 'anvil babies' - because that is what anchor babies are around the necks of the American taxpayer.
