Rock is a great master of life. It teaches us this simple philosophy: Stay firm!
DNA ties us all together; we share ancestry with barracuda and bacteria and mushrooms, if you go far enough back.
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
We are all Africans under the skin.
Taken with the archaeological data, we can say that the old hypothesis of an invasion of people - not merely their language - from the steppe appears to be true.
The greatest history book ever written is the one hidden in our DNA.
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.
Only the mad girls chase me, I think.
Sometimes what we want isn't what we need.
The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me. ' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.