"It all depends on who's directing. A lot of directors are very conscious of the fact that they can be difficult things to record, and they'll save all the screaming and yelling and everything until the end of the job, which is always really nice."

"Most writers are trying to find what they think or feel. . . not simply working from the given, but toward the given, saying the unsayable and steadily asking, "What do I really feel about this?"

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so that makes Google my best friend."

"It was Mr. Littlewood who remarked that "every positive integer was one of his personal friends."

"“The true love wherewith God loves other spirits is not the outpouring upon them of graces which are the unearned gift of his miraculous power; it is the love, on the contrary, which holds the individ…"