Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.
If a mind is just a few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the heart ?
For the longest time I didn't realize I was creative - I just thought I was strange.
No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.
I cease not to advocate peace; even though unjust it is better than the most just war.
It is at the cross-roads that skepticism is born, not in a hermitage.
I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff.
I encounter millions of bodies in my life; of these millions, I may desire some hundreds; but of these hundreds, I love only one.