I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my children & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.

Empty Spaces:After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

Wrapped around my son with only the knowledge of the words of the world & a quiet remembrance of watching before this all began.

If there is any secret to this life I live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can & there is nothing more to it than that.