Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
Never think that you already know all. However highly you are appraised, always have the courage to say to yourself-I am ignorant.
Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.
Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.
While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things.
Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality
Agents of disruption, subversion, sabotage and disinformation tunnelers and smugglers, listeners and forgers, trainers and recruiters and talent spotters and couriers and watchers and seducers, assassins and balloonists, lip readers and disguise artists.
There's material that I read that I fall in love with, and I always get a little bit sad because I know that, when I fall in love with it, almost everyone else is falling in love with that same piece. Getting the crack at doing that thing that, in my soul, I know I have to do it, that's the role.
For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
Five hundred words a day is what I aim for. And I don't go on to the next chapter until I've polished and polished and polished the one I'm working on.