Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

And I'm ill with the thought of your kiss, coffee-laced intoxicating on her lips... shut it out, I've got no claim on you now, I'm not allowed to wear you freedom down

A Fine Frenzy

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Men die, but sorrow never dies;

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, The Crad

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Marshall McLuhan

Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death

Source Unknown

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

Andre Malraux

I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Source Unknown

At beyond continent of reality, there are oceans of ideas.

Toba Beta

Twenty-five years ago, while an undergraduate at Stanford, I got a job on campus as a lifeguard, deepening a love of swimming and water that has lasted throughout my life. I took the duties seriously and studied the swimmers with professional vigilance, relieved at the end of each day that no emergency rescue had been required. But the greatest challenge of the job was standing poolside in a bathing suit with my body on display.Work began in the locker room, where I changed into my Speedo and surveyed my reflection, assessing what would be on view for the next few hours. I was plagued by self-criticism. I imagined the swimmers judging my shape, until I made myself remember that I was there to guard their lives, not their fantasies. Later I performed my variation of the same ablutions everyone else did, showering and hair washing, the application of lotion and makeup -- preparations for re-entering the other world of walking upright on solid land.

Elizabeth Rosner, "The New York

As strong, as deep, as wide as is the sea, Though by the wind made restless as the wind, By billows fretted and by rocks confined, So strong, so deep, so wide my love for thee.

Francis William Bourdillon

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen

Samuel Johnson

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

Oscar Wilde