Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

The union of lakes - the union of lands - The union of States none can sever - The union of hearts - the union of hands - And the flag of our union for ever!

I'm a lot better coach when I have really good players

A man was the cause of it all. An unarmed man with a weapon.

Every once in a while, take the scenic route.

Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.

Sentiment is what I am not acquainted with.

No one wants to be part of a fiction, and even less so if that fiction is real.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.