It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

For scientists, reality is not optional.

It is completely usual for me to get up in the morning, take a look around, and laugh out loud.

I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved.

it takes your sleeping self years to catch up to where you really are. ... when you go on a trip, in your dreams you will still be home. Then after you've come home you'll dream of where you were. It's a kind of jet lag of the consciousness.

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

This story about good food begins in a quick-stop convenience market.