You can be as earnest and ridiculous as you need to be, if you don't attempt it in isolation. The ridiculously earnest are known to travel in groups. And they are known to change the world.

I have my own sheep and I literally sheer the sheep and knot sweaters for friends and family from scratch.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

A woman without a man -- a condition of 'manlessness' -- is defined as alone. But a single mother is less alone than the average housewife.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It's a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won't commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.