When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.