Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow next week next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else poetry in terms of psychology.

Frankly writing poetry for children is plain old fun and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic there is mystery in it not to be explained but admired.

The reason why I'm here today is to explain why I am running and what I will do if you give me the honor and the privilege of representing you in the United States Senate. Now I'm running for the United State Senate for a simple reason and that is...I want to win a Nobel Peace prize.

Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature it is part of the interplay between nature and ourselves.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget midway that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

I think that the best way to explain that is that my mother gave me all the color and character and flare and liveliness and my father gave me all the sanity and nature and all the things that helped me be a more rounded human being.

Complex statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple statistically probable things.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy wasteful blundering low and horribly cruel work of nature!