Nothing perhaps has so retarded the reception of the higher conclusions of Geology among men in general, as ... [the] instinctive parsimony of the human mind in matters where time is concerned.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

We did not decide to be born hence

In this loveless world, you’re my endless love.

When the silence and the aloneness press down and around me, crushing me, carving through me like ice, I need to speak aloud sometimes, if only for proof of life.

I like TV. It all depends what it is.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

I would absolutely identify as a New Yorker by nature. I grew up in Detroit. There was not a bone in my body that even considered staying in Detroit for the rest of my life.

A good teacher explains, while a great teacher inspires