Other seasons come abruptly but ask so little when they do. Winter is the only one that has to be relearned.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.

Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer.

(Home is) a place we carry inside ourselves, a place where we welcome the unfamiliar because we know that as time passes it will become the very bedrock of our being.

A reasonable agriculture would do its best to emulate nature. Rather than change the earth to suit a crop... it would diversify its crops to suit the earth

A cliché is dead matter. It causes gangrene in the prose around it, and sooner or later it eats your brain.

The words are not mere words. They are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is reading.

Research, in nature’s laboratory, never stops. It explores every possibility. It never lacks funding. It is never demoralized by failed experiments. It cannot be lobbied.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.

If we begin to see how the gospel is able to change our work, it can have a profound effect on our sense of calling and the meaning behind the work that we do day-in and day-out.

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

Being with Mary was different because...he wasn't the only one who wanted to make love to her. The beast wanted her, too. The beast wanted out so it could take her.

The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.

Most people have thought of ... climate change as a problem about the environment that is separate and distinct from problems of human wellbeing.

I'm pretty strict with anyone on our crew when people start to draw too well or draw some in-betweens in the animation.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.