We have souls, little slices of infinity inside us, and anyone with a soul couldn’t be forgotten by God. He’d never leave behind a part of Himself.

Some things aren’t meant for sunlight. The only place for them is in the shadows.

Even a deep chick like me needed to have a shallow spot somewhere inside.

Even Tom Cruise made a better-looking vampire on-screen, which up until this day had been one of my biggest disappointments.

Death was a living creature. Death was a man tormented by his past. Death was once a human.

I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.

Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

But where, after all, would be the poetry of the sea were there no wild waves?

Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life.

my mother will never leave me. We're together. She will always stay in my heart.