I know that not all my readers like my digressions, but the research that has been done on Caenorhabditis elegans is such a ringing triumph of science that you aren't going to stop me.

Evolution could so easily be disproved if just a single fossil turned up in the wrong date order. Evolution has passed this test with flying colours.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

Even if it were true that evolution, or the teaching of evolution, encouraged immorality that would not imply that the theory of evolution was false.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

Oxygen flooded into the atmosphere as a pollutant, even a poison, until natural selection shaped living things to thrive on the stuff and, indeed, suffocate without it.

The best scientists can do is fail to disprove things while pointing to how hard they tried

They safely cured the world of sadness, wiser the Pfizer for it?

Most artists are surrealists

Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

Good writing is good writing no matter what genre you're writing in, and I believe that there are only a handful of fundamental craft tools that are essential for any genre-including nonfiction.

Rather than making that a good project, I like to make the kinds of films that children can understand in five minutes what the film is about.

I still wrestle with the catharsis of acting. I don't end up playing a lot of likable characters, so I find myself living in a lot of unlikable skin. As a result of that I don't always feel good.

It had need to bee A wylie mouse that should breed in the cats eare.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

Love, is it? First you lose your appetite, then you lose your tongue, then you take leave of your senses, and that's love!

When there are monsters there are miracles.