Robert Browning

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

Oh, the little more, and how much it is! And the little less, and what worlds away.

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.