Science is a tool, and we invent tools to do things we want. It's a question of how those tools are used by people.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

Every night when I go to bed I think, In the morning I will wake up in my own house and things will be back the way they were. It hasn’t happened this morning, either.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.

a handful of crumpled stars

The cemetery has ... an inscription: 'Though I walk through the Valley of the Shadow of Death I will Fear No Evil, For Thou Art With Me.' Yes, it does feel deceptively safer with two; but Thou is a slippery character. Every Thou I've known has had a way of going missing.