The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

Live free or die.

It's funny, isn't it? When you are young you just want to be old, and then later you wish you could go back to being a kid.

How can someone have the power to shatter you to dust--and also to make you feel so whole?

Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.

Dystopian novels help people process their fears about what the future might look like; further, they usually show that there is always hope, even in the bleakest future.

And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it

I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up.

Never stop searching.

When all that's left mediocrity and each day just bleeds into the next.

Nihil est sine ratione.[There is nothing without a reason.]

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

We're all of us haunted and haunting.

When we held the first Earth Day, everyone said it was a success because of the huge turnout. It was probably the largest planned event across the country.

The dogma of the Ghost in the machine.

I eat once a day if I remember, and I try never to go to sleep.