I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.

The heart is a museum, filled with the exhibits of a lifetime's loves.

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive

the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Time is an encoded pattern of fabric woven with information & energy.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

Monetary policy is not a panacea.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Is a reason nesessary? I don't know why you would kill someone. But as for saving someone... A logical mind isn't needed, right? -Kudou Shinichi

Don't dream to be something but rather dream to do something great.