All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.