To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

If there's no money in poetry, neither is there poetry in money.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

My interest in science started in junior high school where an outstanding science teacher, Mrs. Baumgardner, introduced me to the joys of science.

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

The scientific mind does not so much provide the right answers as ask the right questions.