There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line.... People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their...
What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.
Eating is a genuine need, continuous from our first day to our last, amounting over time to our most significant statement of what we are made of and what we have chosen to make of our connection to h...
She'd heard theories in her time regarding the number-one enemy of everything, ranging from Osama bin Laden to premarital sex. The dust theory she liked.
When something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.
I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning th...
The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best kind of revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no cla...
Sometimes history cleaves and for one helpless moment stands still like the pause when the ax splits a log and the two halves rest on end waiting to fall.
Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. The most you can do is live inside that hope, running down its hallways, touching the walls on both sides.
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad things can still happen. And if you’re bad, you can still be lucky.
Mary and Thatcher had lived in enviable times, when biologists were discovering new species right and left, not watching them go extinct.
The density of the butterflies in the air now gave her a sense of being underwater, plunged into a deep pond among bright fishes.
Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least.
Until that moment I'd thought I could have it both ways; to be one of them, and also my husband's wife. What conceit! I was his instrument, his animal. Nothing more. How we wives and mothers do perish...
What we end up calling history is a kind of knife, slicing down through time. A few people are hard enough to bend its edge. But most won't even stand close to the blade. I'm one of those. We don't be...
When the public nerve is aroused, the most impressive capacity of man is his skill for lying.
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