"I do this in my long poems. I have to move between one thing and another and this oscillation is the way I find out what I'm trying to say"

"Looking backward on a period which is finished, we are looking at actually realized returns, costs, etc., as those items are registered in the bookkeeping of business. In such an ex post calculation t…"

"The first and most important quality of all scientific ways of thinking must be the clear distinction between the outer object of observation and the subjective nature of the observer."

"Because of the limited keyboard. This is a very strange thing. When I play the piano, I get clear down to the left edge of the piano. Now, unlike Art Tatum, I don't take runs that go up, that always e…"

"If we have to have a choice between dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we'd rather be alive and have the bad image."