"One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer."

“In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.”

“The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.”

“When I was here there was still a requirement that students had to swim 50 yards to graduate...because Harry Elkins Widener had drowned with the sinking of the Titanic. And it made me very grateful at the time that he had not gone down in a plane crash.”

“The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh.”

“I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.”

Source : Diane Glancy at the 23rd Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference, digital.undwritersconference.org. March 19, 1992.

“May love be your guide in every moment of your life.”

“Liars are always most disposed to swear.”

Source : Vittorio Alfieri (1815). “The tragedies of Vittorio Alfieri”, p.197

“Even the creative things feel mathematic, almost.”

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