No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

A friend is a person who always understands your preoccupations, even when other people do not perceive them at all.

If you look into the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you

If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.

My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever.

To seek God by rituals is to get the ritual and lose God in the process

He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.