"Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation stage, usually referred to as courtship, is remarkably prolonged by animal standards."

“I get rational when I panic.”

“I don't endorse deism or interventionist theism. My point is just that evolutionary biology is logically compatible with the former and with some versions of the latter.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

“To understand our own thinking is to understand all thinking.”

“It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released”

“Hark! She is called, the parting hour is come. Take thy farewell, poor world! Heaven must go home. . . .”

Source : Richard Crashaw (1949). “The verse in English of Richard Crashaw: the 1646 text of Steps to the temple and The delights of the Muses; the 1652 text of Carmen Deo Nostro; the 1653 text of A letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh; and the poems from manuscript”

“Awareness without emotion is a flame without fuel.”

“Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.”

“All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.”