Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

Love is a relative emotional quality

Remember the son of whom you are because a good name is better than gold or silver

We are just about to cross the 400 parts per million threshold.

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

When things are going well, be mindful of adversityWhen prosperous, be mindful of povertyWhen loved, be mindful of thoughtfulnessWhen respected, be mindful of humility

There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.

Being serious is serious business in fiction. It's commercial or hoi polloi in fiction to be funny. It's too accessible to the great unwashed.

People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

The only true voyage would be not to travel through a hundred different lands, but to see the same land through a hundred different pairs of eyes.

[Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.