There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.

All politicians should have 3 hats -- one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.

You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.