Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

Ancient stars in their death throes spat out atoms like iron which this universe had never known. ... Now the iron of old nova coughings vivifies the redness of our blood.

Washington and New York, two primary targets for Al Qaeda.

9/11 woke us up, a nuclear 9/11 could shut us down.

Most right-wing person I know!

Michael Jackson was the most astonishing person I've ever met on the face of this planet.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

Giving is a necessary good

And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.

No matter how deep the whale swims, it will always surface.

I believed that the husband takes care of the family, and the wife takes care of him, and they are true to each other. I know that sounds a romantic illusion, but it can be true.

One of my all-time favorite workouts is boxing.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

Up a set and 2-0 it's definitely a situation where a little match practice would've helped, so I'm disappointed but think I can take some positives from the first set and the start of the second.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.