Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced read more

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large read more

I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.

We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and read more

We want to give men and women in the department equal opportunities to appear on stage. With 'Julius Caesar' and 'The Rainmaker,' those are great opportunities for men, and we selected the others for the female actors on campus.

I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that read more

I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- that will probably take place in January -- but it is our belief that those troops will be Iraqi troops and there may be additional international troops that arrive to help out, as well as part of the U.N. mission. So I don't see need for more American troops, but we can't discount it.

The nuance with the U.S. team in qualifying is always, 'How do we blend our domestic- and foreign-based players? Now read more

The nuance with the U.S. team in qualifying is always, 'How do we blend our domestic- and foreign-based players? Now it's more complicated because we probably have more players abroad than ever before.

We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but read more

We have a draft of the proposals in hand which we're going through. A vote this week is possible, but there are still some areas where we don't have agreement.

She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gave up. She read more

She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gave up. She was always encouraging and always finding solutions.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Power tires only those who do not have it.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science! - Strange Interlude, 1928.