If you don't let technology help you, if you resist good ideas, you condemn yourself to dinosaurhood.

A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.

As for hearing, the sloth is not so much deaf as uninterested in sound.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.

There is nothing more satisfying than having a sentence fall into place in a way you feel is right, and then adding another one and then another one. It's extraordinarily satisfying.

To me, the research is a way of exploring what it means to be alive.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.