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.

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.

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

Evolution is a tinkerer.

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.

You can never play a part in life, especially not in love.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.

I don't do a lot of political jokes. Too many are getting elected.

The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.

As good as you've been to this world is as good as it's gonna be right back to you.

I crave music that'll sort of hurtle me into space and release me up there.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

You're saying we lost the powers of magic because we grew lazy.

When the king gets depressed, he doesn't call for his wife. He doesn't call for the cook. He calls for the court jester.

I wish I could have skipped college.