"Science is a way to pursue one's sense of inquiry at the expense of the State."

“The biggest obstacle that you can have is all inside your head, so I try every day to be optimistic and keep dreaming about great things!”

“I don't understand how people can make such a fuss about people that are happy and in love, when there's people dying of hunger and war and they don't even notice that. I really don't understand that. That makes me so angry!”

“I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.”

“This crisis is not simply a more severe version of the usual business cycle recession, the typical downturn in which economies ultimately adjust and stabilize.”

Source : "Geithner's Speech to the Economic Club of Washington" by Timothy Geithner, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 22, 2009.

“Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories.”

“If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.”

Source : Interview with Angela Pneuman, www.believermag.com. October 2005.

“Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.”

“You know I don't care if it's you know an intern or a full-time employee. I want to help them arrive at who they are or who they want to be in the world and that is one of the questions I ask them when I meet them. You know, who do they want to be.”

Source : Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. April 21, 2010.