I don't know what it is about "magic happens"-stickers on cars but every time I see one I wanna get out my permanent marker and sneak over and write underneath it "so does cot death".

Respect people with less power then you. I don’t care if you’re the most powerful cat in the room, I will judge you on how you treat the least powerful. So there.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

Love without evidence is stalking.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

Define yourself by what you love.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things but if they are capable of saying them it is always visible.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

Before the Internet, if someone disappeared, it meant you should go looking for them. Now it means they got a life.

I think Paul Sarbanes and his wife Christine socialized with them [George and Heather Mitchell] more than I did, but we all hung out, or we saw each other in groups.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

I saw endless depths of brown, the depths I'd fallen into so many times. No red rings. Dimitri...was not a Strigoi. And he was weeping.

The difference between a thief and a congressman: When a thief steals your money, he doesn't expect you to thank him.