I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

I'll see you in another life brother.

God's dice always have a lucky roll.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes.

I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and true love. Don't even try to tell me different.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

You will know you're old when you cease to be amazed.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.