The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.