The poem is a plank laid over the lion's den.

But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall.

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.

Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.

True will is wishing backed by power.

Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.

Reality is always so obstructive.

Happiness is a state of mind. The key to happiness is being able to disconnect your life from your perceptions. If you saw things as they really were, you would be happy automatically.

If you can break the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of the existence, that is yoga.

It's as if you were interested in fashion and your neighbor when you were growing up happened to be Giorgio Armani.

In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.