We've got the catalog, now we just have to figure it out. It's not going to be one gene. It's going to be an accumulation of changes.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

By comparing the human and chimp genomes, we can see the process of evolution clearly in the changes (in DNA) since we diverged from our common ancestor.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.

For me, I find that even though I've accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn't give me a sense of satisfaction.

I don't know if I work in order to do something, or in order to know why I can't do what I want to do.

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

The principles of successful stock speculation are based on the supposition that people will continue in the future to make the mistakes that they have made in the past.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

The Democratic Party is not the party of reform.

My hand trembles, my heart does not.

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

All good art is in the nature of a letter written to amuse a sick friend. Too much art, particularly in our time, is only a letter written to oneself.