"My dad used to call me "yeah but" because no matter what the answer was I always wanted to explore why things were what they were and how they might be different."

“The layman always means, when he says reality that he is speaking of something self-evidently known; whereas to me it seems the most important and exceedingly difficult task of our time is to work on the construction of a new idea of reality.”

Source : "The Innermost Kernel : Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics : Wolfgang Pauli's Dialogue with C. G. Jung". Book by Suzanne Gieser, 2005.

“Class certainly loomed large in Katrina's aftermath. Blacks of means escaped the tragedy; blacks without them suffered and died. In reality, it is how race and class interact that made the situation for the poor so horrible on the Gulf Coast. The rigid caste system that punishes poor blacks and other minorities also targets poor whites.”

“The world wants to like America.”

Source : "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam". "TEDTalk Tuesdays", www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

“I go to the first tee scared to death every day. The peaks do not seem to last as long as the valleys in this game.”

Source : "PAT SULLIVAN On Golf - LPGA Hall Needs Lower Standards" by Pat Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. July 01, 1995.

“My school is the world, and my teacher is the people. It is very important not to stay cloistered in the office if you want to create. We have to go out in society to understand how people live and dress in their real lives.”

“I wanted to pack a lot into the lyric, but not go beyond its bounds. Some have written that I wanted to expand what the lyric could do. I just want the hugeness of experience-which includes philosophical discursiveness-to move at a rate of speed that kept it (because all within one unity of experience) emotional. Also, often, questions became the way the poems propelled themselves forward It brings the reader in as a listener to a confession[.] A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession.”

“The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour.”

“My travels led me to where I am today. Sometimes these steps have felt painful, difficult, but led me to greater happiness and opportunities.”