We do not know how much our climate could or will change in the future. We do not know how fast change will occur or even how some of our actions could impact it.
Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1. 40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined. But, notwithstanding this, the more light get, the more thankful we ought to be, for by this means we have the greater range for satisfactory contemplation. time the bounds of light will be still farther extended; and from the infinity of the divine nature, and the divine works, we may promise ourselves an endless progress in our investigation them: a prospect truly sublime and glorious.
He thinkes not well, that thinkes not againe.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Yes. I killed him. And buried her in flowers," I say. "And I sang her to sleep.