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Pythagoras Quotes

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: greek
Birth: 582 BC - 497 BC

Topics

Music Geometry Strings Spheres

I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That book is so incredible.'

Good God Man Book Thought Bad

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

Good Happy Writing Good Writing Read

You can't take a play someone has directed and do whatever you want with it.

Someone You Play Want Whatever Take

My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about.

Maureen Forrester

Life People Book My Life Know About

Life sometimes gets in the way of writing.

Life Writing Sometimes Way Gets

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Art Grow Cunning Deceit Effective

My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.

Success Death Me Back Uncle Copy

I do feel like I've changed a great deal, but not anything outside of the norm of what most people experience as they grow and they take on the responsibilities of parenthood and being more engaged in their business and all that stuff. I think it's a pretty natural evolution.

Business Great Experience People

The most famous secret base, I guess, would be Area 51, which a lot of people have heard of as a kind of mythical place. Well, it's a real place.

People Famous Place Kind Secret

The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat is real.

Real Destruction Nuclear Weapons Mass

You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.

Ambition Book You Want Special Way

I personally love the U.S. 'Office.' I know some of it by heart.

Love Heart Know Office Some

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