There's more in the earth than anyone knows. We'll find wonders.

Names and knowledge change, the way the turningworld brings color or deep shadows, without a soundeven as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.

As Maria Mitchell pointed out in 1875, 'Science needs women'.

No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night.

Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said.

Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring myself to floss.

It feels like forever, like he's lived through the same things as me, like our lives ran parallel for years until last week, when they finally intersected and fused.

Have no judgments about your life, no expectations, and give up the need to know what happens tomorrow.

Tact is just lying for adults.

Creativity is our true nature; blocks are an unnatural thwarting of a process at once as normal and as miraculous as the blossoming of a flower at the end of a slender green stem.

If you wear a suit, you can talk to anybody.

Granted, the writers, directors, producers, and that community make a great deal of money. But they might be choosing to do a whole lot of other things for the living they make.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

I grew up listening to English music.

Great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.