Natural history is not about producing fables.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Bronowski

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Jane Campion

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphanto do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

Abraham Lincoln

La lumière est dans le livre. Ouvrez le livre tout grand. Laissez-le rayonner, laissez-le faire.

Victor Hugo

I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it.

Nicholas Brendon

The basic truth of all things, as nearly as we may ever dream of determining and knowing this truth, is form, that which is, as it is. The way and shape of the thing no less than the thing itself.

William Saroyan

I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.

Steven Wright

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig van Beethoven

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

Simon Newcomb

The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.

Charles Eastman

Neither money nor position can atone to me for low birth.

Anthony Trollope