Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
At this point, if I were to psychoanalyze myself, I'd have to say I am a clown, cleverly disguised as a regular person.
I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.
I can't believe we're in the middle of the fifth season, and if this is all there is, my God, it went fast.
If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.
I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.
Chemotherapy is brutal. The goal is pretty much to kill everything in your body without killing you.