By being grateful, appreciating all we have instead of focusing on what is lacking, we allow more of the same to flow toward us.

Later: Woke up at 3:00 am and crept into Davids room. I talked to David about the ghost who came to live in his body, the sad soul who was taken back into the earth.David’s trophies are dusty again.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Retailing has gone from an information-scarce to an information-rich environment.

The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually covert, even subconscious.

That's why I cut my hair so short. It was getting a little gray.

I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure.

What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image of science by which we are now possessed.