It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour.A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That’s all I can say.

What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain.

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

As the new Adam, it might be said, his final act was to cast the Apple of Knowledge into the deep blue sea.

Only one English word adequately describes his transformation of the islands from worthless to priceless: magical.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts

Let me have you in the most intimate ofways, let me give you a part of myself that no other man may touch.Make me yours forever.

When someone sings his own praises he always gets the tune too high.

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

There is perhaps nothing that is not musical. Perhaps there's no moment in life that's not musical... All instruments, musical or not, become instruments.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That’s what counts.

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?