The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.

Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be readily understood.

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mind nimble, it kills prejudice, and it fosters humor.

Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.