Simple is the only way I can write.

Simple is the only way I can write.

When I wrote those two songs, I couldn't have been any closer to the bottom.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

There's no reason to stereotype yourself. Doing math is like going to the gym - it's a workout for your brain and it makes you smarter.

In the middle of a difficulty lies opportunity.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

Sometimes the right path is not always the easiest one.

You take the noise and put it in data information knowledge, and you get insight from that knowledge. How to execute the trade, the timing, sizing, long, short, and then you risk manage it.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

If you're a Texas Supreme Court Justice hopscotching across 254 counties, trying to tattoo your name onto the noggins of millions of voters, you must find creative ways to raise visibility and build awareness. Twitter, Facebook, etc. are low-cost but high-yield ways to leverage the support of key influencers and opinion leaders.

I love the trilogy form. I like the idea that you can establish a character in book one. And then in the second part, you can take the characters down to their darkest point. And then in the third part, you have total freedom either to give them redemption - or just to kill them.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Charm is simply the art of being pleasing.

I try to make my box as big as it can be because I never want to do the same thing twice.

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Happy Thursday! You're only one day away from being two days away from doing the same work you're doing right now!

This neo-minimalism super cold stuff is weird to me. I need a place where I can come home and take my shoes off.

I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.

I think Kurt Sutter's different as a creator for different people. My experience of Kurt Sutter has always been a really professional, lovely one. I like Kurt Sutter very much.

People think that because of my nature and the tone of my voice that I'm stupid, and that's hard.

I like to space out my work.

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.

It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.