Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good?
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.
For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.
You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.
It is hard to see how one could begin to develop a quantum-theoretical description of brain action when one might well have to regard the brain as "observing itself" all the time!
Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.
Television viewership has been declining for a number of years. The internet has been blamed. Everything has been blamed. Except for what I think the problem is: that the networks own the shows, and they completely think that they make them. They don't any longer let the people who make shows just make them. The networks have notes about everything. They are intimately involved in every aspect of the process. And I think it's hurt the process.
Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?