"I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all."

“The trouble when you have a job like mine is it's your social life as well, so I need to actually [find] something to do in my downtime when my kids are at school.”

“Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.”

“A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.”

“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”

Source : "The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (Letting the Fossil Record Speak; Life - How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation?)". Book by Robert Jastrow (p. 23), 1981.

“It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.”

“Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.”

“Lord Bacon makes beauty to consist of grace and motion.”

“All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.”