Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

Never be afraid of the moments--thus sings the voice of the everlasting.

The most important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

"The act of writing is an act of courage, a confrontation with the self and the world."