"And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?"

“I have never had any problems with editors who wanted me to change my methods or point of view. I pay a lot of attention to editors, but in a different way. They sometimes catch mistakes and help with the order of poems in a book. I do not underestimate them! Indeed, I have been one myself.”

“There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.”

“Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.”

Source : Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

“Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.”

Source : "Break the Koch Machine" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.

“She said I do on day 482, and gave me a son on day 761.”

“Ideas are, in truth, force.”

“I am always working on the go. I have never had an office that I work out of and work has become intertwined with my personal life. Fortunately I am able to work from my home and can answer my e-mails in the morning, play tennis or kitesurf in the afternoon to keep fit and have meetings or phone calls in between.”

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.”