This violent state of mind.This violent state of mine.

...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.

Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Go, do not be afraid and serve

It's as if Thomas Kinkade and Dante were at a party, and one turned to the other sometime after midnight and uttered that classic line "You know, we really should work together sometime.

The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.