"I suffocated for hours, until I turned on...music."

“Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible, splendid...like love.”

Source : "Torture Garden".

“During negotiations nothing is gained by attacking people's comfort zones.”

“The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. A thing is right only when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the community, and the community includes the soil, waters, fauna, and flora, as well as people.”

“I've always been a daydreamer.”

“I would have Simon Cowell sing 'Shiny Happy People' by R.E.M. just to show his true personality.”

“Chance alone is at the source of every innovaton, of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, only chance, absolute but blind liberty is at the root of the prodigious edifice that is evolution... It today is the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. Stating life began by the chance collision of particles of nucleic acid in the "prebiotic soup."”

“There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.”

“War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.”

Source : "Mars and its Canals". Book by Percival Lowell, Chapter XXXII, Conclusion, 1906.