Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

Science is magic that works.

Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide.

I wasn't aware of Ku Klux Klan as I was aware of the widespread assumption that African-Americans were dumber than white people. I think my father believed that. I think everybody white did.

They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber.

My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? 'don't try' he said 'just pretend you understand.