Entropy makes things fall, but life ingeniously rigs the game so that when they do they often fall into place.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

Death is not our destiny. Longing for true love is our true destiny. That is where we will find the ultimate meaning of life.

There is no one way to be a magician any more than there is only one way to be human.

The greatest obstacles I ever had to overcome had been my own insecurities.

Youve got to live life to write a book about it.

TV is terrific. It's really fast paced which I find difficult.

It is not wit merely, but temper, which must form the well-bred man. In the same manner it is not a head merely, but a heart and resolution, which must complete the real philosopher.

When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.