I think people who worry about planetary health on geological scales are totally misguided, that's not the point at all.

Like all biologists I simply acknowledge the gravity of the current situation. There are scenarios under which things work out well and to that extent I'm a cautious optimist.

To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

If you can't write well then your ambition to become famous in this way will be frustrated. Either that or you have to get an amanuensis who will write for you.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens

O LORD God give us a heart to heed to thy holy word.

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

R.E.A.L. conversation: Recognize judgments. Express thoughts neutrally. Ask questions. Listen for verbal & non-verbal messages.

I really admire the experimentalists who challenge traditional narrative - writers like Ishmael Reed, Michael Martone, Donald Barthelme, Tatyana Tolstaya, George Saunders, and many others.

Don't cut your nose off yourself.

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz, not friends.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.