The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.

What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.

Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

To love and not be loved

My vengeance was of a different kind. It bore no offense and no ill towards injustice. It had no emotion. Blood and Death. That's all it was." - Celeste- ALL LIGHT WILL FALL

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue.

Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

Consoling a miserable soul, wiping the tears of a crying person is greater than any worldly achievement.

It is said, no man can write but one book; and if a man have a defect, it is apt to leave its impression on all his performances.

Get going. Get up and walk if you have to, but finish the damned race.

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.