"May we all beware lest our innovative ideas appear very cliche before we even blink."

“To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously,”

“I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit.”

“If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson”

“In the sense that I also try to reflect the fullness of the black experience, I’m very much a jazz poet.”

“I shouldn't say bad things about the illiterate, though..I should write it. That way they won't find out.”

“Both of my parents are surfers, of course, so they understood where my passion for surfing was at and I guess they saw the talent that I had.”

“Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.”

Source : "Geneticist Cynthia Kenyon is heading to Google" by Stephanie M. Lee, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2014.

“I would step into a place of being lined up with a sense of purpose and my inner compass, and everything was going in the same direction. Then I'd get lazy and get off the track. And then things would start to fall apart, and I'd back up and get it together again.”