Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.
I just discovered when I was, oh, 12 or 13, that I was very interested in language - and this showed itself as poetry. There was no looking back.
For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
Religion, in any form, is always interesting to me because of how powerful it is. Not even the religion itself, but to the people that follow it... The effect that it has had on people's minds.
I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.
I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.
I trained in medicine after pursuing an academic career in the humanities, mainly because of my interest in the relationship between mind and body, and between mind and brain.
Animals are everywhere. Some are more romantic, like tigers and elephants and chimpanzees, and some are less romantic, like earthworms, but they are just as interesting.
I respect the rules of TV, the rules of keeping things commercial and interesting and pop-y and fun.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
I just am a huge cheerleader for getting kids interested in science and technology.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That's a straight up Democrat move!
In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don't turn me into a tragic heroine.
The Indonesian brands aren't interested in sports people, only movie stars, because they can get more exposure in the media.
For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.
At the time it seemed like a natural development of my interest in what was going on around me in society.
