Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When nothing new can get in, that's death.

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much.

Before aligning the body to the future, the mind has to straighten out from the impairment or religion.

God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

I should not proceed by land to the East, as is customary, but by a Westerly route, in which direction we have hitherto no certain evidence that any one has gone.

I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details.

Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.

Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.

If Adam was stupid about his pride, Gansey was stupid about Adam.

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.