Hate wields no sustainable power

But at my back I always hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

Nothing is more conservative than a bacterium.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

‎Theorists of journalism have long noted parallels to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle in physics: by reporting on something, one subtly but irrevocably changes it.

Astronauts are inherently insane. And really noble.

Heaven is angered by my arrogance; my proof [of the four-color theorem] is also defective.

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be And so I put this on my life Nobody or nothing will ever come between us And I promise I'll give my life

Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!

Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.