I'm an amateur science enthusiast. I'm not even a professional enthusiast. I don't know anything; I never even passed biology in high school. But I read the science section of the newspaper.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.

those who get upset for being treated the way that they treat others, will never understand why others treat them the way that they treat others.

If the United States doesn't lead then evil triumphs

Taking risks, breaking the rules, and being a maverick have always been important but today they are more crucial than ever.

Even when I think about the fact that energy can become matter and matter can become energy, I have a very strong feeling that there's something afterward.

There was a time when men thought it was sexy to have a housewife waiting for him to come home from work in her slippers, but in modern society, I think an independent woman is even more sexy.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.

It takes hard writing to make easy reading.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.