One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Racism is not dead. Definitely, there are these biases.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

I like silly stuff, too. I like the 'Twilight' series. That was fun.

If you are centered, you can move freely.

My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.

We like to buy stocks which we feel are undervalued and then we have to have the guts to buy more when they go down.