"My initial intellectual interest was not in mathematics but in science. My mother (for some reason) decided to give m…"

"My interest in mathematics was sparked and sustained in high school not by courses per se but by a number of well wri…"

"But whatever success I had or will have is bound up in the swirl of social and political forces that pushed mid-centu…"

"Although I was never in the American South and was a little too young to participate in civil rights demonstrations v…"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"There’s a part of me in every I write, whether it’s male or female, because everything has to go through me. Everythi…"

"Success did come to me later, but that was okay, I could feel myself getting better with each story or book. Age does…"

"I’ve always been fascinated with this sense that every single person walking down the street has a whole story. It’s …"

"My music springs from the soil of the American midwest. It is music of the plains rather than of the city and reflect…"

"As a music theorist, I have always contended that the historical approach to music theory is not enough. The modern t…"