For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

Get rich or die trying

Your destiny will not carry you over the long and winding path of life. You must walk it yourself.

The love of violence is an aspect of our humanity. Even the weak wish to be strong primarily so they can wield the whip.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

I never played drunk. Hung over, yes, but never drunk.

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art

I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion.

I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.

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