Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly different way, sometimes a radically different way.

Knowing too much about other people puts you in their power, they have a claim on you, you are forced to understand their reasons for doing things and then you are weakened.

His father was self-made, but his mother was constructed by others, and such edifices are notoriously fragile.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.