There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science

Trees are as close to immortality as the rest of us ever come.

Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.

Arriving late was a way of saying that your own time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.

The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

No Utopia is Utopia for everyone

I still haven't found the place where I can be my true self. But maybe you never get to be your true self, either.

They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.

What have we here, laddie? Mysterious scribblings? A secret code? Oh, poems, no less! Poems, everybody!

You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

I'm not above acting like a seal every once in a while and waiting for the next fish, I just don't want to do it all the time.

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people.

Buddhism resonated very powerfully with a lot of my preoccupations.

Iran has proxies in Yemen, Syria, Iraq. You can push back against Iran without pulling out of the deal.

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use.

Left alone with our own heads on, we can be pretty mental.