Write verse not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry then don't by any means mother it but try your hand at verse.

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

In addition to serving overseas the Peace Corps' Crisis Corps Volunteers have helped their fellow Americans.

A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me with her compassion patience and understanding.

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first technology that allows useful tasks to be performed in collaboration between parallel universes.

Nothing in the universe is contingent but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Nature I have constantly argued in my work is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate randomly recarving geography over 10 000-year epochs.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles but ours seems to be based on war and games.

You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life.

The chess-board is the world the pieces are the phenomena of the universe the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.

I'm concentrating on staying healthy having peace being happy remembering what is important taking in nature and animals spending time reading trying to understand the universe where science and the spiritual meet.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

The sun with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

Well I'll tell you I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.

Before I settled on music I wanted to be an archaeologist an astronaut all sorts of really diverse things.

Music is part of God's universe.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you unstoppable.

Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would professional sports and television and news and movies.

I think I took my eye off the ball. From about 2005 2006 2007 I was out of it. I thought I could oversee movies and have it done for me so to speak.