Sources for

THE INSPIRATIONAL ATHEIST:

Wise Words on the Wonder and Meaning of Life

by

Buzzy Jackson

Note: Every attempt was made by the author to find a primary source for each quotation. If you have suggestions or corrections for any of the quotations, please email them to AskBuzzy AT gmail DOT com. Thank you!

(Quotations are identified by page number)

Introduction xii You know who you are: “ ‘Nones’ on the Rise,” Pew Research Religion & Public Life Project, October 9, 2012, http://www.pewforum.org/2012/10/09/nones-on-the-rise/. xii “The earliest doubt”: Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), xxi. xii “Things are the way they are in our universe”: Brian Greene, The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010), 368. xiv “To see the earth as it truly is”: Archibald MacLeish, “Riders on Earth together, Brothers in Eternal Cold,” , December 25, 1968, 1. xiv “Mortal men subsist by change”: Titus Carus, in On the Nature of Things, trans. Rev. John Selby Watson, book II, line 75 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851), 57. xv “if I have seen further”: Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675, Simon Gratz Collection, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, http://digitallibrary.hsp.org/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/9565. xvi “People from a planet without flowers”: Iris Murdoch, A Fairly Honourable Defeat (New York: Penguin, 2001), 170.

Advice

1 You are what you settle for: Janis Joplin, interviewed by Howard Smith, The Village Voice, September 30, 1970, http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2013/09/janis_joplin_last_interview_ever.php.

1 This is what you shall do: Walt Whitman, Preface, Leaves of Grass (1855), 3. 1 Do not destroy: Leó Szilárd (1898–1964), Hungarian-American and inventor, #4 of Szilard’s “Ten Commandments,” in Robert J. Levine, Ethics and Regulation of Clinical Research (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988), 431.

1 Facing it: Joseph Conrad, Typhoon (New York: Doubleday, 1902), 178.

2 Humility is the mother of giants: G. K. Chesterton, “The Innocence of Father Brown,” in The Collected Works of G. K. Chesterton: Father Brown Stories, Part I: The Innocence of Father Brown; The Wisdom of Father Brown; The Donnington Affair (: Ignatius Press: 2005), 186.

2 Stay sane: Galileo Galilei, letter to Fr. Vincenzo Renieri, ca. 1633, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tat/core/galileo.htm.

2 Be fully awake: LeRoy Pollock, letter to his son Jackson Pollock, 1928, in “Why Not Be Jubilant?,” Lapham’s Quarterly, http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/why-not-be-jubilant.php.

2 Fast, Cheap, and Good: Tom Waits, Robin Hilton, “Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits,” All Songs Considered, NPR, May 20, 2008.

2 Listen to no one’s advice: Claude Debussy, quoted in H. Charles Romesburg, The Life of the Creative Spirit (Bloomington: Xlibris: 2001), 239–240.

3 We are what we repeatedly do: Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World’s Greatest Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926; 2012), 61.

3 Beware the barrenness: Larry Chang, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (Washington, DC: Gnosophia Publishers: 2006), 391.

3 Don’t EVER EVER: Emma Thompson, letter to “Dear Em (16),” Dear Me: A Letter to My Sixteen- Year-Old Self (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009), quoted in Letters of Note, http://www.lettersofnote.com/2011/05/dear-sixteen-year-old-me.html.

3 You practice: Philip , “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, January 9, 2009, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/philip-glass-quotes-0109.

3 Think like a man of action: Speech at the Descartes Conference in Paris, 1937. Quoted in The Forbes Scrapbook of Thoughts on the Business of Life (1950), 442, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henri_Bergson.

3 The only teacher: John Jeremiah Sullivan, American author, The Notre Dame–St. Mary’s College Observer, January 22, 2014, http://ndsmcobserver.com/2014/01/interview-john-jeremiah-sullivan/.

3 The best time to plant a tree: Anonymous Chinese proverb, “Inspiring Chinese Proverb: The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is now.” MindFuelDaily.com, http://www.mindfueldaily.com/livewell/inspiring-chinese-proverb.

4 Don’t just be yourself: Joss Whedon, American film and television writer and director, Wesleyan University Commencement Address (2013), http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2013/05/26/whedoncommencement/. 4 Leap and the net will appear: Anonymous; attributed variously to John Burroughs, Ray Bradbury, Zen proverb, and Julia Cameron.

4 Don’t undertake a project: Edwin Land, in “The Vindication of Edwin Land” Forbes, vol. 139, May 4, 1987, 83.

4 Write them: Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC (New York: Open Road Media: 1962; 2012), 62.

4 There is no mistake: William Blake, attributed.

4 Do those things: George Saunders, “George Saunders’s Advice to Graduates,” The New York Times, July 31, 2013, http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/george-saunderss-advice-to- graduates/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0.

4 Never pass up: Gore Vidal, “Gore Vidal in quotes,” BBC News, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-19075751.

4 Lots of people will tell you to follow your bliss: Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired magazine, “Unsolicited advice to a young person,” Facebook post, April 22, 2014, https://www.facebook.com/Kevin2Kelly.

5 Read everything: Penn Jillette, @pennjillette. My advice to a high school senior is read everything and be kind. #badpenn. Twitter 9:04 p.m.—October 16, 2013, https://twitter.com/pennjillette/status/390531251515719680.

5 Quit now: David Zucker, American film director, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 4.

5 Never take advice: Robert Altman, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, February 1, 2004, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0204-FEB_WIL.

5 Dare to: R. Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975), 11, http://triviumeducation.net/texts/SYNERGETICS-BuckminsterFuller.pdf.

5 When you are in: Samuel Beckett, in John Harrington, The Irish Beckett (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991), 76.

5 What we bear: Stoic maxim, in Frederic May Holland, The Reign of the Stoics (New York: Charles P. Somerby: 1896), 84.

6 First answers: Stewart Brand, American creator of The Whole Earth Catalog and founder of the Long Now Foundation, “Two Questions,” Wired, February 1995, http://www.wired.com/wired/scenarios/2questions.html.

6 It is almost impossible: John Logue, American journalist and novelist, quoted in Alexander Green, An Embarrassment of Riches (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2013), 71. 6 Next time somebody: Richard Dawkins, The Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, , and Love (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004), 248.

6 Artists work best alone: Steve Wozniak, cofounder with Steve Jobs of Apple Computer, iWoz (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 125.

6 We cannot regard: James Lovelock, English scientist and environmentalist, “A Book For All Seasons,” Science 280, no. 5365 (May 8, 1998).

6 My advice is to do: Miranda July, American writer, film director and artist, “This Much I Know,” The Guardian (UK), http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/dec/18/this-much-i-know-miranda-july.

7 Gentlemen, in the little moment: Paul Claudel (1868–1955), French poet and playwright, in Claud Cockburn, In Time of Trouble (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1956), 264.

7 Empty your mind: Bruce Lee, Longstreet (television show, 1971), episode 1: “The Way of the Intercepting Fist,” directed by Don McDougall, written by Stirling Silliphant and Baynard Kendrick, Edling Productions, ABC Television and Paramount Studios, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6sln__roCU.

7 We have to stop CONSUMING: Terence McKenna, American ethnobotanist and psychonaut, “Eros and the Eschaton” (lecture), Seattle 2004, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aySqymiraBA.

7 It is better: Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire (1891), 68, http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/oscar-wilde/lord-arthur-stories.pdf.

7 Seek not the paths: Matsuo Bashō, “Words by a Brushwood Gate” (also translated as “The Rustic Gate”) (Unknown translator), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D.

7 Eat the present moment: in Stephen Fry, John Lloyd, and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 332.

7 Whatever you think: Thelonious Monk, “T. Monk’s Advice,” compiled by Steve Lacy, http://1heckofaguy.com/2009/01/03/thelonious-monks-advice-archived-by-steve-lacy/.

8 The best thing one can do: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Poet’s Tale; The Birds of Killingworth,” Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863), http://www.hwlongfellow.org/poems_poem.php?pid=2047.

8 Understand that being: Chris Ware, American comic book artist and cartoonist, Rookie (2012), http://rookiemag.com/2012/11/chris-ware-intervie/.

8 Be a philosopher: , An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding and Selections from A Treatise of Human Nature: With Hume’s Autobiography and a Letter from Adam Smith (Google eBook), (: Open Court Publishing Company, 1907), 5.

8 Only an amateur: John Waters, “My Type Doesn’t Know Who I Am: An Interview with John Waters,” by Davis Schneiderman, March 21, 2011, http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/dschneiderman/2011/03/john-waters/. 8 Many of life’s failures: Deborah Hedstrom, From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (Nashville: B&H Publishing Group, 2007), 22.

8 The secret of all victory: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (167 CE), http://www.egs.edu/library/marcus- aurelius/quotes/.

8 Do not fear mistakes: Miles Davis, attributed.

8 Try to be: Henry James, The Art of Fiction, published in Longman’s Magazine 4 (September 1884), and reprinted in Partial Portraits (New York: Macmillan, 1888), http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/artfiction.html.

9 Begin to live at once: Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 101, http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moral_letters_to_Lucilius/Letter_101.

9 Never pay the slightest attention: Bernard Baruch, in Stephen Fry, John Lloyd, and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 171.

9 Always do: Emerson, Essays (First Series): “Heroism” (1841), http://www.emersoncentral.com/heroism.htm.

9 Solvitur ambulando: Diogenes, attributed.

9 Nothing great was ever achieved: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Marsh, The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1871), 433.

9 The chief danger in life: Alfred Adler, (1870–1937), Austrian doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of individual psychology, in Stephen Fry, John Lloyd, and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 72.

9 There is more danger: Michael Ondaatje, “Artists for Freedom of Speech,” BBC World Service, February 10, 2001, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/highlights/010209_juvenile.shtml.

9 Be less curious: , in Clifton Fadiman and Andre Bernard, Bartlett’s Book of Anecdotes (Google eBook) (New York: Little, Brown: 2000), 150. PDF. eBook.

10 I have found: Harry S. Truman, interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on CBS Television, May 27, 1955.

10 Always remember: Julia Child, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, August 15, 2012, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/julia-child-quotes-0601?click=main_sr.

10 Nobody cares: Martha Graham, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 72.

10 You must do the thing: Eleanor Roosevelt, You Learn By Living (1960), cited in “Quotations by Eleanor Roosevelt,” The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project,http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/abouteleanor/er-quotes/. 10 I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night: Marilyn Monroe with Ben Hecht, My Story (Boulder, CO: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006), 43.

Art and Creativity

11 The only things in my life: Ansel Adams, Ansel Adams: An Autobiography (1985), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ansel_Adams.

11 I can very well do without : Vincent Van Gogh, letter to Theo Van Gogh, early September 1888, in The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 286.

11 To me, literature is a calling: Susan Sontag, in Leslie Garis, “Susan Sontag Finds Romance,” The New York Times, August 2, 1992, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/03/12/specials/sontag- magromance.html.

11 My future starts: Miles Davis, in Tram Nguyen, Language is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (: Beacon Press, 2009), 252.

12 Inspiration is necessary: Aleksandr Pushkin, PSS, xi, 54 (1827), in Andrew Kahn, Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press: 2008), 34.

12 Remember: information is not knowledge: Frank Zappa, “Packard Goose,” Joe’s Garage Acts I & II, LP, Zappa Records, 1979.

12 You never have to change anything: Saul Bellow, in John Bear, The #1 New York Times Bestseller (Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press, 1992), 93.

12 Drama is very important in life: Julia Child, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, August 15, 2012, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/julia-child-quotes-0601.

12 All that is worth remembering: William Hazlitt, “On Poetry in General,” Lectures on the English Poets (1818), http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16209/pg16209.html.

12 The secret of a man: William Dean Howells, “Oliver Wendell Holmes,” The Complete Works of William Dean Howells, http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3400/pg3400.html.

12 My idea is that there is music in the air: Edward Elgar, quoted in R. J. Buckley, Sir Edward Elgar (London: Bodley Head, 1905), 32.

13 The greater the artist, the greater the doubt: Robert Hughes, “Modernism’s Patriarch (Cézanne),” Time, vol. 147, June 10, 1996, 72.

13 I suspect that one of the reasons: Gore Vidal, “Oscar Wilde: On the Skids Again” (1987), http://www.gorevidalpages.com/2011/01/gore-vidal-quotes-the-arts.html.

13 If you love what you do: Steve Wozniak, iWoz (New York: W. W. Norton, 2006), 300. 13 I occasionally have an anti-Roth reader: Philip Roth, interviewed by Hermione Lee, “The Art of Fiction No. 84,” The Paris Review (1984), http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2957/the-art-of- fiction-no-84-philip-roth.

13 The man who can’t visualize: André Breton, quoted in Brad Wieners, “DavidLynch.com,” Wired April 2002, http://www.lynchnet.com/articles/wired.html.

13 Much of good science: E. O. Wilson, Letter to a Young Scientist (New York: Liveright, 2013).

13 Congratulate yourselves: , Essay VIII, “Heroism,” Essays—First Series (1841), http://www.emersoncentral.com/heroism.htm.

14 One should photograph objects: Minor White, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 250.

14 There is an incessant influx: Henry David Thoreau, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ch. 1 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 246.

14 My sole inspiration: Cole Porter, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 167.

14 The aim of an artist: Leo Tolstoy, in A. N. Wilson, Tolstoy (New York: W. W. Norton, 2001), 267.

14 Imagination is a force: James Cameron, address to the 2010 TED conference, February 13, 2010, http://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy.

14 If you’ve worked hard: Maurice Sendak, in Leonard S. Marcus, Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book (New York: Dutton, 2002),181.

15 Words are, of course: Speech, quoted in The London Times, February 15, 1923, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipling.

15 Imaginative literature: Chinua Achebe, “In Their Own Words,” December 28, 2013, The Guardian (UK), http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/28/literary-giants-died-2013.

15 History repeats itself: Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, ch. 8 (1906), http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/tmots10h.htm.

15 Nothing attracts me: Margaret Bourke-White, “Portrait of Myself,” in Susan Ratcliffe, ed., People on People: The Oxford Dictionary of Biographical Quotations (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 375.

15 There is no theory: Claude Debussy, in Nat Shapiro, An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music (New York: Springer, 1981), 268.

15 There is not a single true work of art: Albert Camus, “The Artist and His Time: The Wager of Our Generation,” in Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays (New York: Random House, 2010), 240. 16 The increase of known truths: Galileo Galilei, letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), in Perry McAdow Rogers, Aspects of Civilization: Problems and Sources in History (Pearson, 1988), 53.

16 Music is the effort we make: Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (New York: Penguin, 2005), 61.

16 The [Chauvet cave] rock paintings: John Berger, “Past Present,” The Guardian (UK), October 11, 2002, http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2002/oct/12/art.artsfeatures3.

16 The job of the artist: Francis Bacon, in Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art (New York: Macmillan, 2010), 145.

Beauty

17 When we contemplate the whole globe: John Muir, Travels in Alaska (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,1915), 5.

17 Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful: Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Random House, 2010), 78.

17 If you can’t see anything beautiful: Shane Koyczan, Canadian poet and spoken word artist, “To This Day,” http://tothisdayproject.com/the_poem.html.

17 If you retain nothing else: Tina Fey, Bossypants (New York: Little, Brown, 2013), 114.

18 Why are numbers beautiful?: Paul Erdos, in Keith Devlin, The Math Gene: How Mathematical Thinking Evolved and Why Numbers Are Like Gossip (New York: Basic Books, 2000),140.

18 The truth isn’t always beauty: Nadine Gordimer, The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics, and Places (New York: Penguin, 1989), 38.

18 You Don’t Have to Be Pretty: Erin McKean, American lexicographer, “You Don’t Have to Be Pretty,” A Dress a Day (blog), October 20, 2006, http://www.dressaday.com/2006/10/20/you-dont-have- to-be-pretty/.

18 “What makes the desert beautiful”: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 68.

19 I believe in Michelangelo: George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor’s Dilemma (1906), in Uta Hagen, Challenge for the Actor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991), 20.

19 For me, the study of these laws: Murray Gell-Mann, American Winner in , 1969, Nobel Banquet Speech, December 10, 1969, in Wilhelm Odelberg, ed., Les Prix Nobel en 1969, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1969/gell-mann-speech.html.

19 The most common error made: Fran Lebowitz, “Manners,” in Metropolitan Life (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1978), 6. 19 The most beautiful experience we can have: , “The World As I See It,” (1931), The Center for the History of Physics, American Institute of Physics, http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/essay.htm.

Belief

20 Ignorance is preferable to error: Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1782, http://web.archive.org/web/20080914030942/http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JefVirg.html.

20 It’s hard to be religious: Bill Watterson, Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons (New York: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1992), 8.

20 A faith which cannot survive collision: Arthur C. Clarke, in Giancarlo Genta, Lonely Minds in the Universe (New York: Springer, 2007), 23.

20 I contend we are both atheists: Stephen F. Roberts, American humanist writer, “History of the Quote,” http://freelink.wildlink.com/quote_history.php.

20 Beliefs can be permanent: Lisa Randall, American theoretical physicist, The Discover Interview, Discover, July 29, 2006, http://discovermagazine.com/2006/jul/interview-randall/#.Uw-JK-PZ-T8.

21 I believe in man: Tai Solarin, Nigerian educator and author (1922–1994), “What I Believe In: Man,” in Akinbayo Adenubi, ed., Timeless Tai (Lagos: F & A Publishers Ltd., 1985), http://infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/Tai_Solarin.html.

21 Skepticism is my nature: Jerry W. DeWitt, American atheist activist and former Christian pastor, Twitter post @jerry_dewitt, April 22, 2012, https://twitter.com/jerry_dewitt/statuses/193964823569121280.

21 Science adjusts its views: Tim Minchin, “Storm,” (2011), http://www.timminchin.com/2011/04/08/storm/ .

21 I believe in the indomitable human spirit: Michael Shermer, American science writer and founder of The Skeptics Society, “The Joys of Life Without God,” Salon, August 23, 2006, http://www.salon.com/2006/08/23/shermer_2/.

21 I do believe in the beauty: Jodie Foster, interviewed by Dan McLeod, The Georgia Straight, July 10– 17, 1997, 43, http://ffrf.org/news/day/19/11/freethought/#jodie-foster.

22 What we think, or what we know: John Ruskin, The Crown of Wild Olive: Three Lectures on Work, Traffic and War (London: George Allen, 1866), http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26716.

22 I don’t want you to follow me: Eugene V. Debs, Stephen Marion Reynolds, “Life of Eugene V. Debs,” in Bruce Rogers and Stephen Marion Reynolds, eds., Debs: His Life, Writings and Speeches (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1908), 71, https://archive.org/details/cu31924030331940.

22 You can never have too much butter: Nora Ephron, “Nora Ephron on Julie, Julia and Cooking Like a Child,” NPR, August 7, 2009, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111543710. 22 When I told the people of Northern Ireland: Quentin Crisp, “Sunbeams,” The Sun, September 2006, issue 369, http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/369/sunbeams.

22 Independence is my happiness: , Rights of Man, part 2.7 (1792), http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Rights_of_Man#Chapter_V._Ways_and_means_of_improving_the_conditi on_of_Europe.2C_interspersed_with_miscellaneous_observations.

23 We despise all reverences: Mark Twain, Following the Equator, The Writings of Mark Twain, vol. 6 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899), 193.

23 If you’ve got a religious belief that withers: PZ Myers, American biologist, “The Man with Two ‘Duh’s in His Name,” Pharyngula, April 3, 2008, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/04/03/the- man-with-two-duhs-in-his-n/.

23 If there’s something you really want to believe: Penn Jillette, “Penn Jillette’s Bullshit Detector,” Big Think, January 17, 2013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOY1y2SpD4o.

23 Because here’s something else: David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, About Living a Compassionate Life (New York: Little, Brown, 2009), 98.

23 Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger: Abbie Hoffman, attributed. See: Wayne King, “Mourning, and Celebrating, a Radical,” The New York Times, April 20, 1989.

23 I know that in environments of uncertainty, fear, and hunger: Pearl S. Buck, “Roll Away the Stone,” This I Believe, 1939; rebroadcast January 22, 2010, http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16412/I Believe, 1939.

24 A man’s got to believe something: Peter de Vries, New Yorker editor and novelist (1910–1993), The Vale of Laughter (Boston: Little, Brown, 1967), 317.

24 When one longs for a drink: Anton Chekhov, Note-Book of Anton Chekhov, trans. S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1921), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12494/.

24 Show Me Before I Believe: Alfred T. Kisubi, Ugandan-American professor of philosophy and poet, “Crossing the Border in a Golden Search: A Testimony on Personal Enlightenment,” in Norm R. Allen, Jr., ed., The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003), 145.

24 There’s nothing that can help you explain: Frank Clark, American cartoonist, in Mary Anne Radmacher, Live with Intention: Rediscovering What We Deeply Know (Newburyport, MA: Conari Press, 2010), 93.

24 An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it: Don Marquis, American writer and humorist best known for creating the characters Archy and Mehitabel (1878–1937). Attributed. See: Wikiquote, “Don Marquis,” http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Don_Marquis.

24 I do not believe in Belief: E. M. Forster, “What I Believe,” Two Cheers for Democracy (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1951), 67. 25 When you hear for the first time: Philip Glass, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, January 9, 2009, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/philip-glass-quotes-0109.

25 I never believed in Santa Claus: Dick Gregory, American comedian, in Joslyn Pine, Book of African- American Quotations (Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 2012), 78.

25 For some time I was saying: Mohandas K. Gandhi, in Gora (Goparaju Ramachandra Rao), An Atheist with Gandhi (1950), http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/gora13.htm.

25 What do I believe in?: Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990), in James Bishop, Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist: The Life and Legacy of Edward Abbey (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), epigraph.

25 The foolish reject what they see: Huang Po, in James R. Miller, Visions from Earth (Bloomington: Trafford Publishing: 2004), 17.

25 The world would be astonished: John Stuart Mill, ch. 2, Autobiography (1873) (New York: Columbia University Press, 1950), unpaginated, http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/m/mill/john_stuart/m645a/chapter2.html.

26 My Imagination is a Monastery: John Keats, letter to Percy Shelley, August 16, 1820, http://www.john-keats.com/briefe/160820.htm.

26 I am an individual and a believer in liberty: Charlie Chaplin, “Mr. Chaplin’s Defense,” September 23, 1952, The Guardian (UK), http://century.theguardian.com/1950-1959/Story/0,105162,00.html.

26 It isn’t necessary to have something to believe in: Alfred Bester, American science fiction writer (1913–1987), The Stars My Destination (1956), http://americandigest.org/Bester,%20Alfred%20- %20The%20Stars%20My%20Destination.pdf.

26 Until the Greeks filled libraries: Jennifer Michael Hecht, American historian, philosopher, and poet, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from and to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson (New York: HarperOne, 2004), xxi.

26 An Atheist loves his fellow man: Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American activist and founder of American Atheists (1919–1995), “Why I Am an Atheist” (Austin, TX: Society of Separationists, 1966), http://www.darkfiber.com/atheisms/atheisms/muohair.html.

27 My theology, briefly: Christopher Morley, Hide and Seek (New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920), 92.

27 When confronted with anyone: Ricky Gervais, “Why I’m an Atheist,” , December 19, 2010, http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/19/a-holiday-message-from-ricky-gervais- why-im-an-atheist/.

27 I have made a great discovery: Georges Braque, in John Richardson, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper (Chicago: Press, 2001), 186. 27 From the point of view of a tapeworm: Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Abbey.

27 The eyes are the windows: Tina Fey, Bossypants (New York: Little, Brown, 2011), 105.

27 I am a lover of truth: Stephen Fry, English author, actor, and comedian, “Trefusis Blasphemes,” Paperweight (London: Arrow, 1993), 58.

28 Jesus Christ is the only God: William Blake, in Harold Bloom, William Blake (New York: Infobase Publishing, 2008), 12, books.google.com/books?isbn=1438117078.

28 For people of faith, I think the greatest compliment I could pay: Julia Gillard, “Julia Gillard Respects Religious Beliefs but Will Not ‘Pretend’ to Have Faith for Votes,” Joe Kelly, The Australian, June 29, 2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/archive/politics/julia-gillard-respects-religious-beliefs- but-will-not-pretend-to-have-faith-for-votes/story-e6frgczf-1225885581225.

28 It often occurs to me: E. O. Wilson, in Matthew Alper, The “God” Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc, 2008), introductory pages.

28 The idea of the sacred: Salman Rushdie, Herbert Reade Memorial Lecture, February 6, 1990, in Robert Andrews, The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations, 778.

28 Atheists don’t use their dying to bargain: Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last (New York: Harmony, 1997), 98.

29 I believe there’s nothing we can know: Katharine Hepburn, in Myrna Blyth, “Kate Talks Straight,” Ladies Home Journal, October 1991, http://business.highbeam.com/3825/article-1G1-11253944/kate- talks-straight.

29 To find the divine and the helpful: John Burroughs, The Light of Day (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900), 50.

29 in its negation of : Emma Goldman, “The Philosophy of Atheism,” in Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, Mother Earth Bulletin (New York: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1915), 416, http://books.google.com/books?id=qxwXAAAAYAAJ&dq=mother+earth+bulletin+1915&source=gbs_n avlinks_s.

29 If I go to a play: Sinclair Lewis, in Will Durant, On the Meaning of Life (Carrollton, TX: Promethean Press: 2005), 38.

30 The great civilizer on earth: E. L. Doctorow, Reporting the Universe (Cambridge, MA: Press, 2004), 20.

30 They say the streets are going to be beautiful in Heaven: Butterfly McQueen, in Michael Surman, ed., Religion and Prime Time Television (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 1997), 22. 30 That’s atheism—just doing the intellectual work: Matthew Yglesias, American journalist, “The ,” The Atlantic, May 7, 2007, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/05/the-new- atheism/42478/.

30 I don’t believe in God: Javier Bardem, “10 Questions for Javier Bardem,” Time, August 14, 2008, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1832849,00.html.

30 The only atheist: Gabriel Lauber, Swiss musician, Denken verdirbt den Charakter: Alle Aphorismen (Munich: Carl Hauser Verlag, 1984), 37. Original: Atheist ist nur der, der sich auch aus dem Atheismus keinen Gott macht, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Atheism.

30 It does not matter whether God exists: Norm R. Allen, Jr., American writer and secular humanist activist, “The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion,” in Norm R. Allen, Jr., ed., The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003), 162.

31 I wish there was a place: Simon Pegg, English actor and filmmaker, Twitter update, @SimonPegg, November 10, 2011, https://twitter.com/simonpegg/status/136733447199789056.

31 If the concept of God: James Baldwin, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” The New Yorker, November 17, 1962, 59.

31 Heaven, such as it is: , “The End is Near, Nearer, Nearest,” in Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World (New York: Touchstone, 2000), 52.

32 Doubt grows: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Proverbs in Prose (1819), in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 88.

32 Like many people: Federico Fellini, in Jack Huberman, The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound (New York: Nation Books, 2008), 112.

32 For those who believe in God: Charles Bukowski, “The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture,” Life, December 1988, http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-037.html.

32 If God dwells inside us: Jack Handey, Twitter post @JackHandey, January 21, 2007, https://twitter.com/jackhandey/status/3506293.

32 Sometimes a concept is baffling: E. O. Wilson, “The Biological Basis of Morality,” The Atlantic, April 1998, http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98apr/biomoral.htm.

33 Perhaps I am just a hopeless rationalist: Stephen Jay Gould, “Tires to Sandals,” in Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (New York: W.W. Norton, 1994), 324.

33 Believe those who are seeking: André Gide, Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits (Paris: Gallimard, 1952), 174, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9_Gide.

33 I believe that anything worth its salt: Van Dyke Parks, American songwriter, composer, and producer, in Allan Kozinn, “ ‘Smile’ and Other Difficulties,” The New York Times, July 22, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/arts/music/smile-and-other-difficulties.html?pagewanted=all. 33 Without doubts: , The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), 20.

33 People search for certainty: Richard P. Feynman, American Nobel Prize Winner in Physics, 1965 (1918–1988), The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 112.

34 The outcome of any serious research: Thorstein Veblen, “The Evolution of the Scientific Point of View,” University of California Chronicle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1908), books.google.com/books?id=nE0MAQAAIAAJ.

34 It is not the answer: Eugene Ionesco, in Marie Blume, “A Work Is Not a Series of Answers It Is a Series of Questions . . . It Is Not the Answer That Enlightens, but the Question,” International Herald Tribune, January 1970, 10–11, quoted in Harold Bloom, ed., Eugene Ionesco (New York: Chelsea House, 2003),140.

34 The only thing that makes life possible: Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness (New York: Ace Books, 2000), 70.

34 All gods were immortal: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Unkempt Thoughts (1962), quoted in Jon Winokur, ed., The Portable Curmudgeon (New York: Plume, 1992), 122.

34 I have never made but one prayer: Voltaire, letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767, https://web.duke.edu/secmod/primarytexts/voltaire1755.html.

34 About the gods: Protagoras in Jim Herrick, Humanism: An Introduction (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2005), 5.

34 I think we’re capable: Studs Terkel, quoted in AARP Magazine, March/April 2006,https://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14323-louis-studs-terkel.

34 I’m not normally a praying man: Homer Simpson, in “Lost Our Lisa,” The Simpsons, season 9, episode 24, written by Brian Scully, directed by Pete Michels, May 10, 1998, http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Lost_Our_Lisa.

35 Impiety: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1911), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/972/972- h/972-h.htm#link2H_4_0010.

35 Men tend to have the beliefs: , in London Calling (London: BBC Publishing, 1947), 18.

35 Of all the animosities: George Washington, letter to Edw. Newenham, June 22, 1792.

35 I read about an Eskimo hunter: Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 15.

Chance and Coincidence

36The essence of life: Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (New York: W. W. Norton, 1986), 317. 36 The man who is not dead: Lebanese proverb, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 47.

36 We are here because: Stephen Jay Gould, in David Friend, The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here (New York: Little, Brown, 1991), http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/tag/stephen-jay-gould/.

37 Of course I don’t believe in it: , Danish Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1922 (1885– 1962), in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 321.

37 A pinch of probably: James Thurber, Lanterns & Lances (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1981), 66.

37 You never know: Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (New York: Knopf, 2007), 267.

37 Most of the species: , The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God (New York: Penguin, 2006), 82.

37 It is known that Whistler: , “Gauchesque Poetry,” Discusión (1932), cited at http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jorge_Luis_Borges.

38 Statistically, the probability: Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell (New York: Bantam Books, 1984), 165.

38 Depend on the rabbit’s foot: R. E. Shay, humorist, cited at http://www.beliefnet.com/Quotes/Inspiration/R/R-E-Shay/Depend-On-The-Rabbits-Foot-If-You-Will- But-Remem.aspx.

Change

39 All flows: Heraclitus, quoted by Plato in Cratylus, and by Diogenes Laërtius in Lives of the Philosophers, book IX, section 8, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heraclitus.

39 If the shoe doesn’t fit: Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Henry Holt, 1983), 228.

39 Our condition is the condition of all things: Kenneth L. Patton, American humanist writer and poet and Unitarian minister (1911–1994), The Sense of Life: The Meaning and Mysticism of Natural Religion (Ridgewood, NJ: Meeting House Press, 1974), 76.

3 Very early, I knew that the only object in life: Margaret Fuller, Memoirs, in Margaret Fuller and Barry Andrews, eds., The Spirit Leads: Margaret Fuller in Her Own Words (Boston: Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations, 2010), 16.

39 Only the ephemeral: Eugene Ionesco, quoted in Baz Kershaw, “Citizen Artists in the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Ecological Perspective,” in Meike Wagner and Wolf Dieter-Ernst, Performing the Matrix: Mediating Cultural Performance (epodium, 2008), 263. 39 Every generation laughs: Henry David Thoreau, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ch. 1 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 19.

40 It is said an Eastern monarch: Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, Milwaukee, Wisconsin,” September 30, 1859, cited in Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 261.

40 We need not destroy the past: John Cage, “Lecture on Nothing” (1949), Silence: Lectures and Writings (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 110.

40 You can recognize: Beverly Rubik, American biophysicist, quoted in “Things to Think About,” Tufts University, http://ase.tufts.edu/biology/labs/levin/resources/thinkAbout.htm.

40 If you want to make enemies: Woodrow Wilson, “Address to World’s Salesmanship Congress,” Detroit (July 10, 1916), Wilson’s State Papers and Addresses (New York: George H. Doran Company: The Review of Reviews Company, 1918), 286.

40 If you don’t become the ocean: Leonard Cohen, “Good Advice for Someone Like Me” (2000), http://www.leonardcohenfiles.com/goodadvice.html.

40 Of all existing things: Epictetus, The Manual [Enchiridion] of Epictetus (ca.108 CE), in The Discourses of Epictetus (1916), trans. P. E. Matheson, http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/dep/dep102.htm.

41 But I know also: Thomas Jefferson, letter to H. Tompkinson (aka Samuel Kercheval), July 12, 1816, http://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/quotations-jefferson-memorial.

41 You may not be able to change the world: Jessica Mitford, in Carl Jensen, Stories That Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011), 151.

41 It is not by sitting still: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Past and Present” (1843), in The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Natural History of Intellect, and Other Papers (Google eBook) (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), 382.

41 Here’s what we can do: Bill Hicks, “It’s Just a Ride,” Dominion Theatre, London (1993), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7bcxBf2vK4.

42 Of course, in the long run: , American mathematician, philosopher, and founder of cybernetics (1894–1964), The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society (London: Free Association Books, 1989), 38, http://21stcenturywiener.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/The-Human- Use-of-Human-Beings-by-N.-Wiener.pdf.

42 Rust never sleeps: Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps, LP, Reprise Records, 1978. Some sources claim “Rust Never Sleeps” was an advertising slogan previously used by the paint company Rust-Oleum but this has not been confirmed.

Death 43 I believe that the purpose: Laurie Anderson, Laurie Anderson’s Farewell to Lou Reed, Rolling Stone, November 21, 2013, http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/laurie-andersons-farewell-to-lou-reed-a- rolling-stone-exclusive-20131106?page=2.

43 Nothing lasts: Terence McKenna, The Final Earthbound Interview, 1998, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCaK35DQ4uk.

43 When everyone in the world admits: Caitlin Moran, How to Be a Woman (New York: Harper Collins, 2012), 188.

43 Don’t waste any time: Joe Hill, telegram to Bill Haywood in advance of Hill’s execution, in Peter Carlson, Roughneck: The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983), 235.

43 What gives dignity to death: Sherwin B. Nuland, “Fresh Air Remembers Surgeon and ‘How We Die’ Author Sherwin Nuland,” Fresh Air, NPR, March 7, 2014, http://www.npr.org/2014/03/07/287272150/fresh-air-remembers-surgeon-and-how-we-die-author- sherwin-nuland.

43 It feels to me that the process of dying: Li-Young Lee, American poet, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 256.

44 Millions long for immortality: Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1943), 134.

44 Death is nothing: Rwandan proverb, cited in obituary, “Anne Heyman, Rwandan Rescuer, Is Dead at 52,” The New York Times, February 8, 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/world/africa/anne- heyman-rwanda-rescuer-is-dead-at-52.html?hpw&rref=obituaries.

44 It’s funny the way most people love the dead: Jimi Hendrix, Starting at Zero: His Own Story (2013), http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/08/jimi-hendrix-in-his-own-words.

44 Nature (meaning Death): Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (New York: Little, Brown, 2013), 770.

44 Put song and music before you: The Harper’s Song, translation adapted from Miriam Lichtheim, http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/harper-song.html.

44 There are three deaths: David Eagleman, “Metamorphosis,” Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (New York: Vintage, 2009), 23.

45 There are many things in this world: , Don’t Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, the Torments of Low Thread Count, the Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems (New York: Anchor, 2005), 238.

45 Even if it means oblivion, friends: Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (New York: Yearling, 2003), 320.

45 To live till you die: Lao Tzu, “Kinds of Power,” in Tao Te Ching: A Book About the Way and the Power of the Way, trans. Ursula K. LeGuin and J. P. Seaton (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1998), 44. 45 Life on Earth is 3.8 billion years old: Dorion Sagan, “Remembering : An Evolutionary Eulogy,” August 4, 2012, http://www.sevenpillarshouse.org/article/remembering_lynn_margulis.

45 I hope that after I die: Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts (New York: Berkley, 1992).

46 Death will be a great relief: Katharine Hepburn, quoted in “Lasting Legacies,” Legacy.com, http://www.legacy.com/ns/FullStory.aspx?StoryType=1&StoryID=6.

46 To aspire to be superhuman: Aldous Huxley, “Spinoza’s Worm,” Do What You Will (1928), https://archive.org/stream/worldofaldoushux002191mbp/worldofaldoushux002191mbp_djvu.txt.

46 What is terrible is not death: Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken over the Ship (New York: Harper Collins, 2009), 13.

46 Jerónimo, my grandfather: José Saramago, “How Characters Became the Masters and the Author Their Apprentice,” Nobel Lecture, December 7,1988, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1998/saramago-lecture.html?print=1.

46 There is no reason for amazement: Robinson Jeffers, “The Purse-Seine” (1937), http://www.best- poems.net/robinson_jeffers/poem-17321.html.

46 Who knows but life be that: Euripides, Phrixus, Frag. 830, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Euripides.

46 People living deeply: Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, vol. w (1934–1939), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ana%C3%AFs_Nin.

47 Death is certain: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, “How (and Why) I Became an Infidel,” in , ed., The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever (Cambridge, MA: DaCapo, 2007), 480.

47 Life is a great surprise: Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (New York: Random House, 2011), 225.

47 Those who die: Kenneth L. Patton, The Sense of Life: The Meaning and Mysticism of Natural Religion (Ridgewood, NJ: Meeting House Press, 1974), 256.

47 All say: “How hard it is that we have to die”: Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/102/102-h/102-h.htm.

47 Death is the dark backing: Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift (New York: Penguin, 2013).

48 Perhaps the whole root of our trouble: James Baldwin, “Letter from a Region in My Mind,” The New Yorker, November 17, 1962, 59.

48 I would rather be ashes than dust!: Jack London, The Bulletin, San Francisco, California, December 2, 1916, part 2, 1.

48 I have little confidence: Robert Ingersoll, in Roger E. Greeley, ed., The Best of Robert Ingersoll: Selections from His Writings and Speeches (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993), 66. 48 Death . . . the most awful of evils: (341 BCE–270 BCE), letter to Menoeceus, http://www.epicurus.net/en/menoeceus.html.

48 It was happening all the time: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002).

49 Death must be so beautiful: Oscar Wilde, “The Canterville Ghost,” (1887), http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Canterville_Ghost/Chapter_5.

49 Only when you accept: Gabriel Bá and Fabio Moon, Daytripper (New York: Vertigo, 2011).

49 It’s quite possible in 200 years’ time: Anthony Lane, interview by Robert Birnbaum, Identity Theory, October 3, 2002, http://www.identitytheory.com/anthony-lane/.

49 We will sing to you, Doctor: “The End of Time,” episode 4.18, Doctor Who, TV show, written by Russell T. Davies and Steven Moffatt, directed by Euros Lyn, BBC One, January 1, 2010.

49 I know that nothing is destructible: Zora Neale Hurston, “Religion,” from Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), in Kimberly Rae Connor, Conversions and Visions in the Writings of African-American Women (Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press: 1995), 112.

50 Something about the meaning of life: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, in Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, Life Lessons: How Mortality Can Teach Us About Life and Living (New York: Scribner, 2001), 208.

50 He wanted his body transported: Doug Peacock, in Gregory Dunne, “ ‘Yes, Hope Is Our Duty’: On Wendell Berry’s Leavings, Pacific Rim Review of Books, issue 15, http://www.prrb.ca/articles/issue15- berry.htm.

50 Those who so greatly exalt incorruptibility: Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), trans. Stillman Drake (1953), http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/dialogue.html.

51 My whole religion is this: Bertrand Russell, Greek Exercises (1888), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell.

51 I think from my experience in war: , American biologist and one of the first sequencers of the human genome, in Julian Guthrie, “J. Craig Venter Sees Change from Genomics,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 2009, http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/J-Craig-Venter-sees-change-from- genomics-3229302.php.

51 When I die I shall be content: H. L. Mencken, in Mencken on Mencken: A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings (Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press, 2010), 160.

51 The history of a species: Stephen Jay Gould, “The Streak of Streaks,” The New York Review of Books, August 18, 1988, 187.

51 That it will never come again: Emily Dickinson, Poem #1741, http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/11693. 52 [The fact that I’m going to die soon] bugs me sometimes too: Richard P. Feynman, in Danny Hillis, “Richard P. Feynman and the Connection Machine,” Physics Today, January 1989, http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-machine/.

52 Type faster: , Asimov Laughs Again (New York: HarperCollins, 1982), 147.

52 I never saw one of my peasant neighbors: Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne’s Essays and Selected Writings: A Bilingual Edition (New York: Macmillan, 1969), 405.

52 The best break anybody ever gets: Walt Kelly, The Incompleat Pogo (1954), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly.

53 I have no idea what’s awaiting me: Albert Camus, The Plague (New York: Vintage, 1972), 118.

53 We must be born with an intuition: Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1966).

53 I know why we try to keep the dead alive: Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (New York: Vintage, 2005).

53 If you were going to die soon: Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last (New York: Random House, 1998), 67.

Emotions

54 Let everything happen to you: Rainer Maria Rilke, “Go the Limits of Your Longing,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (New York: Penguin, 2005), 119.

54 Let us not look back: James Thurber, Lanterns & Lances (New York: Harper Colophon Books, 1981), 10.

54 This machine surrounds hate: Pete Seeger, quoted in John Nichols, “Pete Seeger Surrounded Hate and Forced It to Surrender,” The Atlantic, January 28, 2014, http://www.thenation.com/blog/178113/pete- seeger-man-surrounded-hate-and-forced-it-surrender#.

54 In other words, we think we have found: Francis Crick, letter to his son, March 17, 1953, quoted in Matt Ridley, “Life is a Digital Code,” in John Brockman, ed., This Explains Everything (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013), 4.

55 A poor person: Jean Kerr, Irish-American author and playwright (1922–2003), Poor Richard, act I (New York: Doubleday, 1965), 125.

55 There is but one coward: W. E. B. Du Bois, “The Study of the Negro Problems,” in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898), http://www.webdubois.org/dbStudyofnprob.html.

55 Grab the broom of anger: Zora Neale Hurston, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 256. 55 Our dreams, our impulses: Stephen Fry, in The Debate with Christopher Hitchens (2005), http://www.theguardian.com/culture/culturevultureblog/2006/may/08/listentosteph.

55 That the situation is hopeless: Aldo Leopold, letter to Bill Vogt, January 21, 1946, cited in Julianne Lutz Newton, “Aldo Leopold’s Odyssey,” Orion, March/April 2007, http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/256/.

55 Hatred, which could destroy so much: James Baldwin, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 256.

55 A wet man: Anonymous.

55 All they know of hate: Andrea Gibson, American poet and spoken-word artist, “Ashes,” October 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7hUrTybO2M.

56 You can discover what your enemy fears most: Eric Hoffer, American philosopher, author, and recipient of the 1983 Presidential Medal of Freedom (1902–1983), The Passionate State Of Mind, and Other Aphorisms (New York: Harper, 1955), 222.

56 Nor is the outlook of unbelief: Carl Van Doren, “Why I Am an Unbeliever,” 1926, http://www.skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id10.html.

56 It is a fine thing to face machine guns: H. L. Mencken, Introduction, The Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche (Radford, VA: Wilder Publications, 2008), 8.

56 Nothing in life is to be feared: Marie Curie, in Melvin A. Benarde, Our Precarious Habitat (New York: W. W. Norton, 1973), v.

56 Hope is the feeling: Mignon McLaughlin, American journalist and author (1913–1983), The Complete Neurotic’s Notebook (1981), http://neglectedbooks.com/?p=734.

56 However vast the darkness: Stanley Kubrick, interviewed by Eric Nordern, Playboy, September 1968, http://sk.aphelis.net/post/151364929/playboy-what-do-you-think-well-find-on-the-moon.

57 Man can do what he wants: Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Freedom of the Will (1839), quoted in Pavel Vasilʹevich Simonov, The Motivated Brain: A Neurophysiological Analysis of Human Behavior (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, 1991), 198.

57 I know what “nothing” means: Joan Didion, Play It as It Lays (New York: Macmillan, 2005), 214.

57 Incessant potential catastrophe: John Jeremiah Sullivan, “Violence of the Lambs,” GQ, February 2008, http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/200802/john-jeremiah-sullivan-violence-lambs-future- human-race.

57 Everything can be taken from a man: Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), 69.

57 Hope is like a road: Lin Yutang, Chinese writer and inventor (1895–1976), in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 152. 57 Fear builds its phantoms: Jawaharlal Nehru, The Discovery of India (1946), 356, https://archive.org/details/DiscoveryOfIndia.

58 A hero is someone: Romain Rolland, French writer and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 1915 (1866–1944), in Romain Rolland’s Jean-Christophe, trans. Gilbert Cannan (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1913), 353.

58 Childbirth is more admirable: Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Henry Holt, 1983), 10.

58 I have loved the stars too fondly: Sarah Williams, English poet (1837–1868), “The Old Astronomer,” Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse (London: Strahan, 1868), 68.

58 Why hate someone for the color of their skin: Denis Leary, attributed, http://elitedaily.com/humor/16-denis-leary-jokes-will-teach-everything-need-know-life/.

58 A lot of what looks like a lack of willpower: Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote to What Isn’t Working Today (New York: HarperOne, 2008), 11.

58 Question with boldness even the existence of a god: Thomas Jefferson, letter to his nephew Peter Carr from Paris, , August 10, 1787, in Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Works of Thomas Jefferson in Twelve Volumes, Federal Edition, vol. 5 (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1904), 324–327.

58 I’ve never met a healthy person: J. B. S. Haldane, in Robert Andrews, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989), 16.

59 The most anxious man: George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26107/pg26107.html.

59 Whate’er’s begun in anger: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanac (1734), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Poor_Richard’s_Almanack.

59 I have great faith in optimism: Arthur C. Clarke, “90 Birthday Reflections,” SETI League Guest Editorial, The SETI League, http://www.setileague.org/editor/clarke07.htm.

59 Take care not to make your pain: Seneca, in Frederic May Holland, The Reign of the Stoics (New York: Charles P. Somerby, 1896), https://archive.org/details/reignstoics00unkngoog.

59 In the depth of winter: Albert Camus, “Return to Tipasa” (1954) in Camus, Lyrical and Critical Essays (New York: Random House, 2012), 169.

59 We tell lies when we are afraid: Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower (1994), http://www.tadwilliams.com/vault/quotes/.

59 Needless fear and panic: Élie Metchnikoff (1845–1916), Russian biologist and Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, 1908, quoted in William N. Rom and Steven B. Markowitz, Environmental and Occupational Medicine (Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, 2007), 731. 60 It is hope that gives life a meaning: François Jacob, French biologist and Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, 1965 (1920–2013), The Possible and the Actual (Seattle: Press, 1982), 12.

60 And the only thing people regret: Ted Hughes, letter to his son Nicholas Hughes, 1986, Letters of Ted Hughes (2009), http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/09/live-like-mighty-river.html.

60 For as children tremble and fear: Lucretius, (ca. first century, BCE), book III, line 87, http://societyofepicurus.com/the-new-canon/.

60 Although the world is full of suffering: Helen Keller, “Optimism” (1903), http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Optimism_(Keller).

60 I’ve never really thought of myself: Maria Bamford, American comedian, The Now Show (2006), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maria_Bamford.

60 There’s something just as inevitable as death: Charlie Chaplin, Limelight, 1952, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin, Celebrated Productions, .

61 At least half: Stephen Sondheim, in Joanne Lesley Gordon, Art Isn’t Easy: The Achievement of Stephen Sondheim (Carbondale, IL: SIU Press, 1990), 11.

61 I never saw: John Muir, “Alaska Fragments, June–July 1890,” in John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979), 313.

61 “I’m bored” is a useless thing to say: Louis C. K., “Country Drive,” Louie, season 2, episode 5, 2012, 3 Arts Entertainment, FX network.

61 Western civilization places so much emphasis on the idea of hope: Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk and activist nominated by Martin Luther King for the , Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York: Bantam, 1992), 42.

62 My only regret: John Maynard Keynes, John Maynard Keynes, 1883–1946, Fellow and Bursar (A memoir prepared by direction of the Council of King’s College, Cambridge University, England), 37 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1949), http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/07/11/more- champagne/.

Freedom

63 Man is free: Voltaire, Brutus, act II, scene I (1730), http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=2187&Itemid=27.

62 Every little increase: Philip Pullman, The Subtle Knife (New York: Random House, 2002), 320.

63 The function of freedom: Toni Morrison, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 88.

63 If liberty means anything at all: George Orwell, Original Preface, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 226. 63 The only man who is really free: Jules Renard (1864–1910), French author, attributed, quoted in Evan Esar, 20,000 Quips and Quotes (New York: Barnes & Noble Publishing, 1995), 441.

64 Freedom is available: Noah Levine, Dharma Punx (New York: HarperOne, 2004), 247.

64 I contemplate with sovereign reverence: Thomas Jefferson, letter to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut, January 1, 1802, http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html.

64 The cost of liberty: W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown: A Biography (: G. W. Jacobs, 1909), 76.

64 In fact, the real disturbers of the peace: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza, “That in a Free State Every Man May Think What He Likes, and Say What He Thinks,” ch. XX, The Chief Works of Benedict de Spinoza, vol. 1 (Tractatus-Theologico-Politicus, Tractatus Politicus) (1670), http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1710&Itemid=27.

64 You measure democracy: Abbie Hoffman, in William P. Martin, The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2004), 51.

64 Free speech is the bedrock: Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (New York: , 2010), 215.

65 Burn all the maps: Richard Brautigan, “The Double-Bed Dream Gallows,” The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968), reprinted at PoetryFoundation.org, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178299.

65 What part of “liberation for women”: Caitlin Moran, in Sally Errico, “Half Wollstonecraft, Half Lolcats: Talking with Caitlin Moran,” The New Yorker, November 15, 2012, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/11/interview-with-caitlin-moran.html.

65 Everybody says that they have better things to do: , in Tavi Gevinson, “David Sedaris Is as Awesome as Everybody Hoped,” Rookie, January 10, 2012, http://rookiemag.com/2012/01/david-sedaris-is-awesome/.

65 There is no safety in numbers: James Thurber, “An Aphorist for An Anxious Age,” Time, November 10, 1961, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,938279,00.html.

65 Freedom is something that dies: Hunter S. Thompson, in John Glassie, “Hunter S. Thompson,” Salon, February 3, 2003, reprinted in Beef Torrey and Kevin Simonson, Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson (Oxford: University of Mississippi Press, 2008), 192.

65 “But,” you will say, “I feel free”: Baron D’Holbach, Good Sense Without God: or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas (1772), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/7319/7319-h/7319- h.htmhttp://www.ftarchives.net/holbach/good/gcontents.htm#contents.

66 Freedom is that space: Salman Rushdie, “Imagine There’s No Heaven: A Letter to the World’s Six Billionth World Citizen,” The Guardian (UK), October 15, 1999, http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/oct/16/salmanrushdie. 66 A pedestal: Gloria Steinem, in Gina Salamone, “The Gloria Steinem Factor,” New York Daily News, March 24, 2009, http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/gloria-steinem-factor-feminist-icon-75th- birthday-celebrate-article-1.368736.

66 I remember waking up: Lynn Margulis, American biologist (1938–2011), in Dorion Sagan, “Lynn Margulis and the Pursuit of Knowledge: Rebel with a Cause,” September 8, 2012, http://empiricalmag.blogspot.com/2012/09/lynn-margulis-and-pursuit-of-knowledge.html.

66 The most important thing to do: Frank Zappa, on The Howard Stern Show (1987), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa.

Gratitude

67 The Universe is in a constant state: Harold Ramis (1944–2014), American film director, writer, and actor, “In Memoriam,” Vanity Fair, February 24, 2014, http://www.vanityfair.com/vf-hollywood/harold- ramis-dies.

67 We learned a lot about the Moon: Jim Lovell, in In the Shadow of the Moon, documentary film, directed by David Sington, Vertigo Films, 2007, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ditEyvRbM.

67 I’m not extravagant: Margaret Drabble, “This Much I Know,” The Guardian (UK), November 2, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/02/margaret-drabble-novelist.

68 I don’t believe in God: Hugh Laurie, in Richard Clune, “Man About the House,” The Sunday Telegraph (UK), October 28, 2007, http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/man-about-the- house/story-e6frewt9-1111114738268.

68 When eating a fruit: Vietnamese proverb, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Vietnamese_proverbs.

Happiness

69 I’m not guilty: John Waters, “Teenage Girls Assaulted by Wild Animals: An Interview with John Waters,” Hazel Cills, Rookie, February 17, 2012, http://rookiemag.com/2012/02/teenage-girls-assaulted- by-wild-animals-an-interview-with-john-waters/2/.

69 Happiness isn’t on the road to anything: Lybba Kirghiz Edelstein, in Bob Dylan, Chronicles, vol. I (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 20.

69 I got the blues thinking of the future: D. H. Lawrence, letter to Arthur McLeod, January 17, 1913, (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 55.

69 The happy do not believe: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Hermann and Dorothea” (1797), quoted in “Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,” Freedom from Religion Foundation, https://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14524-goethe.

69 One of the secrets: Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea (New York: Vintage Classics, 1999), 8.

70 Heaven is home: Edward Abbey, Abbey’s Road (New York: Dutton, 1979), 129. 70 If you plan on being anything less: Abraham Maslow, in Joan Neehall-Davidson, Perfecting Private Practice (Bloomington: Trafford Publishing, 2004), 95.

70 Well, I’d rather be unhappy: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (New York: Rosetta Books, 2010), 179.

70 “The best thing for being sad”: T. H. White, The Once and Future King (New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1958), 185.

70 I’m content: Roseanne Barr, in Roseanne Barr and Mindy Kaling, “Funny Women, Serious Talk,” The New York Times, November 29, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/fashion/roseanne-barr- and-mindy-kaling-funny-women-serious-talk.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0.

71 Grab every scrap of happiness: Noel Coward, act I, Noel Coward and Sheridan Morley, Noel and Gertie, play (New York: Samuel French, 1983).

71 There are shortcuts to happiness: Vicki Baum, Austrian-American Jewish writer of the 1932 Academy Award–winning film Grand Hotel (1888–1960), quoted in “Hedwig Baum,” Jewish Currents, January 24, 2011, http://jewishcurrents.org/january-24-hedwig-baum-3652.

71 I have never been one of those who cares: Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog (New York: Macmillan, 2002), 26.

71 The only possible good in the universe: Robert Ingersoll, in Robert Ingersoll, Frederic René Coudert, and Stewart Lyndon Woodford, The Limitations of Toleration: A Discussion Between Robert G. Ingersoll, Frederic R. Coudert, Stewart L. Woodford, Before the Nineteenth Century Club, of New York, at the Metropolitan Opera House (New York: The Truth Seeker Company, 1889), 43.

71 It is impossible to live a pleasant life: Epicurus (341–270 BCE), Principal Doctrines, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1910), http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/epicurus/doctrines/.

71 To me, the raveled sleeve of care: , “Ellery Queen: The New York Murders,” (January 1959), in Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker (New York: Viking Press, 1973), 568.

72 You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow: Chinese proverb, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 307.

72 A man would prefer to come home: Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC (New York: Doubleday, 1962), 169.

72 When I ask myself, “Who are the happiest people on the planet?”: , American Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1980, in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 5.

72 You see how diminutive your life and concerns are: Edward Gibson, “Astronaut Quotes,” The Overview Institute, http://www.overviewinstitute.org/astronaut-quotes.

72 Puritanism: H. L. Mencken, Sententiæ: The Citizen and the State (1916), http://www.archive.org/stream/mencken017105mbp/mencken017105mbp_djvu.txt. 73 To be really happy and really safe: Winston Churchill, National Churchill Museum (US), https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/winston-churchill-biography.html.

73 Earth will swing on its ellipse: Jennifer Michael Hecht, The Happiness Myth (New York: HarperOne, 2005), 319.

73 I urge you to please notice: Kurt Vonnegut, “Knowing What’s Nice,” In These Times, November 6, 2003, http://inthesetimes.com/article/knowing_whats_nice.

73 To make others less happy is a crime: Roger Ebert, Life Itself: A Memoir (New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011), 414.

73 No pleasure is comparable: Francis Bacon, “Of Truth,” The Essays of Francis Bacon (1601), http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/bacon/bacon_essays.html.

74 It was one of those jolly, peaceful mornings: P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves and the Hard-Boiled Egg,” Leave It to Jeeves and Other Works (Houston, TX: Halcyon Press, 2011), Kindle eBook, location 866.

74 There is only one inborn error: Arthur Schopenhauer, “The Road to Salvation,” trans. E. F. J. Payne, in The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2 (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1966). 634.

74 Happiness is good health: Ingrid Bergman, David Smit, Ingrid Bergman: The Life, Career, and Public Image (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012), 216.

74 I have an idea, a theory: Susan Glaspell, ch. 2, The Visioning (1911), http://www.classicreader.com/book/3151/2/.

74 If one only wished to be happy: Charles de Montesquieu, in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern (Detroit, MI: F. B. Dickerson Company, 1908), 215.

74 A vigorous five-mile walk: Paul Dudley White, quoted in Stan Carlson, “Wellness Walking Has Many Benefits,” Fremont Tribune, January 18, 2014, http://fremonttribune.com/news/local/wellness- walking-has-many-benefits/article_f23bc026-ffaf-5485-9774-b8443b4aeab4.html.

75 If you observe a really happy man: W. Beran Wolfe, How to Be Happy Though Human (New York: Routledge, 2013), 3–4.

75 It is neither wealth nor splendour: Thomas Jefferson, letter to Anna Jefferson Marks, July 12, 1788, http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-13-02-0254.

75 A morning-glory at my window: Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass (New York: Eakins Press, 1966), 30.

75 One of the distinguishing marks: Kim Stanley Robinson, Antarctica (New York: Random House, 2010) 413.

75 I have love, blue skies: Penn Jillette, “There Is No God,” This I Believe, NPR, November 21, 2005, http://www.npr.org/2005/11/21/5015557/there-is-no-god. 76 Maybe life itself: Julia Child, in Laura Shapiro, Julia Child: A Life (New York: Penguin, 2007), 175.

76 Man had always assumed: Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Del Rey, 2007), 144.

76 Being satisfied: Pema Chödrön, The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving-Kindness (Boston, MA: Shambhala Publications: 2010), 5.

76 Happiness comes in small doses: Denis Leary, No Cure for Cancer, directed by Ted Demme, 1992, Channel 4 Television Corporation.

77 The fact that a believer is happier: George Bernard Shaw, “The Importance of Hell in the Salvation Scheme,” Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion (New York: Brentano’s, 1916), cxvi.

77 It is vain: Epicurus (341–270 BCE), in Cassius Amicus, A Life Worthy of the Gods: The Life and Work of Epicurus (Smashwords Editions, 2011), https://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/66309/1/a- life-worthy-of-the-gods-the-life-and-work-of-epicurus.

77 There are something like 18 billion cells: Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation (ReadHowYouWant.com, 2009), 185.

77 It’s an experience like no other: , in James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Open Road Media, 2011), Kindle eBook, location 2744.

77 I did not believe: Emma Goldman, Living My Life, vol. I (New York: Dover, 1970), 56.

78 Religion is a story: Jill Bolte Taylor, American neuroanatomist, in Leslie Kaufman, “A Superhighway to Bliss,” The New York Times, May 25, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25/fashion/25brain.html?pagewanted=all.

78 The existence of vastly more great books: Jonathan Lethem, “By the Book,” The New York Times, August 29, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/01/books/review/jonathan-lethem-by-the-book.html.

78 [Humankind] in its poverty: Mark Twain, “The Chronicle of Young Satan,” The Mysterious Stranger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005), 165.

78 The mother of excess: Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 230.

78 And I find: Stephen Jay Gould, “Prologue,” Bully for Brontosaurus (New York: W. W. Norton, 1991), 13.

79 What sky! What light!: Samuel Beckett, All That Fall (1957), http://archive.org/stream/samuelbeckett031321mbp/samuelbeckett031321mbp_djvu.txt.

Human Nature

80 Naughtiness is rare: Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human (Chicago: C. H. Kerr & Co., 1915), 109. 80 If the world were merely seductive: E. B. White, in Israel Shenker, “E. B. White: Notes and Comment by Author,” The New York Times, July 11, 1969, http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/08/03/lifetimes/white-notes.html.

80 Streets are straight: Warren Miller, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, December 30, 2008, www.esquire.com/ . . . /what-ive-learned/warren-miller-quotes-0109.

80 The real problem of humanity: E. O. Wilson, “An Intellectual Entente,” Harvard Magazine, September 10, 2009, http://harvardmagazine.com/breaking-news/james-watson-edward-o-wilson- intellectual-entente.

81 A man is a worker: Joseph Conrad, “Well Done” (1921), in Jeffrey Meyers, Joseph Conrad: A Biography (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001), 214.

81 Each of us must make his own true way: Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 103.

81 As long as the world is turning: Mel Brooks, in Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, The Complete 2000 Year Old Man, Audio Cassette Box Set, Rhino/Wea, 1994.

81 Poison’s not bad: Keith Richards, What I’ve Learned, Esquire, October 26, 2010, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/ESQ0207WHAT.

81 Our tools are better than we are: Aldo Leopold, “Engineering and Conservation” (938), in Susan L Flader and J. Baird Callicott, eds., The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991), 254.

81 Never trust a man: Billy Connolly, quoted in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 339.

82 My dear Kepler: Galileo Galilei, letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), in Giorgio De Santillana, The Crime of Galileo (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), 9.

82 They tried to get me to hate white people: Thelonious Monk, “T. Monk’s Advice,” compiled by Steve Lacy, http://1heckofaguy.com/2009/01/03/thelonious-monks-advice-archived-by-steve-lacy/.

82 A human being should be able to change a diaper: Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (New York: Penguin, 1987), 279.

82 There are only two or three human stories: Willa Cather, O, Pioneers! (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 119.

82 After all, human beings are like that: Gertrude Stein, Paris France (New York: W. W. Norton, 1940), 67.

83 We would not be here: Patton Oswalt, Facebook post, April 15, 2013, http://hellogiggles.com/patton- oswalt-responds-to-the-boston-marathon-explosions-better-than-we-ever-could. 83 Most people would die: Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity (1925), in Bertrand Russell, A Fresh Look at Empiricism, 1927–1942 (New York: Psychology Press, 1996), xxvi.

83 We want to be special: PZ Myers, “Theology Is a Deceitful Strategy,” Pharyngula, July 1, 2008, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2008/07/01/theology-is-a-deceitful-strate/.

83 Humans are able to count: Scott Atran, American and French anthropologist, in Paul Davies, “Taking Science on Faith,” Edge, December 31, 2006, http://www.edge.org/conversation/taking-science- on-faith.

84 Although many of us may think of ourselves: Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist’s Personal Journey (New York: Plume, 2009), 19.

84 If somebody’d said before the flight: Alan Shepard, “First American to Travel to Space,” International Space Hall of Fame, http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=55.

84 Man, you might say: Robinson Jeffers, “The Beauty of Things,” The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Palo Alto: Press, 2001), 652.

84 To state quite simply: Albert Camus, The Plague (1947), quoted in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 58.

84Wars and armies and nuclear weapons: Morrissey, in Amy Rose, “This Charming Man: An Interview with Morrissey,” Rookie, February 26, 2013, http://www.rookiemag.com/2013/02/this- charming-man-an-interview-with-morrissey/.

85 Most of our ancestors: Robert Anton Wilson, Cosmic Trigger I: The Final Secret of the Illuminati (Las Vegas: New Falcon Publications, 1977), 84.

85 Not being funny: David Rakoff, Fraud: Essays (New York: Random House, 2002), 106.

85 There are two kinds of people: Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There’d Be Cake: Essays (New York: Riverhead, 2008), 141.

85 There is nothing at all absurd about the human condition: Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (New York: Penguin, 2005), 18.

85 Science is used to raise money: Sir Edmund Hillary, quoted in Sir Edmund Hillary & the People of Everest (New York: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2002), 74.

86 Man is the only animal: William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Comic Writers (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1819), 1.

86 Language was invented to ask questions: Eric Hoffer, in James Thomas Baker, Eric Hoffer (Woodbridge, CT: Twayne, 1982), 70.

86 But it does me no injury: Thomas Jefferson, Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781– 1783), http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/jeffvir.asp. 86 What a strange machine: Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 254.

86 Although attempting to bring about world peace: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York: Bantam, 1992), vii.

86 He who makes a beast of himself: Samuel Johnson, in George Birkbeck Norman Hill, “Anecdotes of the Revd. Percival Stockdale” (1809), Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. II (Clarendon Press, 1897), 333.

Humor

87 A sense of humor is a measurement: Dave Barry, in Bryan Curtis, “Dave Barry: Elegy for the Humorist,” Slate, 2005, http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/the_middlebrow/2005/01/dave_barry.html.

87 They say rather than cursing the darkness: , When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (Google eBook) (New York: Hyperion, 2004), 140.

87 You can make fun: Matt Stone, in Paul Harris, “Undisputed Kings of Satire,” The Observer (UK), March 31, 2007, http://www.theguardian.com/film/2007/apr/01/art.artanddesign.

87 Irreverence is easy: Tom Lehrer, liner notes to The Remains of Tom Lehrer, CD Box Set, Rhino Records, 2000, quoted in Rusty Pipes, “Tom Lehrer,” Cosmik Debris, http://www.cosmik.com/aa- june00/tom_lehrer.html.

87 Even though laughter: David Rakoff, Fraud: Essays (New York: Random House, 2002), 120.

87 Laugh at what you hold sacred: Abraham Maslow, quoted in Loretta LaRoche, Relax—You May Have Only a Few Minutes Left: Using the Power of Humor to Overcome Stress in Your Life and Work (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2008), xvii.

88 Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth: Stephen Fry, “The BBC and the Future of Broadcasting,” June 18, 2008, StephenFry.com. http://www.stephenfry.com/2008/06/18/the-bbc-and-the- future-of-broadcasting/.

88 I was delighted too when I heard: Richard P. Feynman, letter to Sandra Chester, 1965, in Michelle Feynman, ed., Perfectly Reasonable Deviations: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, 2005 (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 164.

88 If you ever start taking life too seriously: Joe Rogan, “10 Quotes That Prove Joe Rogan Is Way Smarter than You Think,” The Daily Banter, November 25, 2013, http://thedailybanter.com/2013/11/10- quote-that-prove-that-joe-rogan-is-way-smarter-than-you-think/.

88 Don’t take life so serious: Walt Kelly, Pogo, December 25, 1973, http://www.comics101.com/comics101/?mode=project&action=view&project=Comics+101&chapter=39.

Ideas and Knowledge 89 The only thing more dangerous than an idea: Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates (New York: Penguin, 2008), 1.

89 Dare to know!: Immanuel Kant, “What Is Enlightenment?” (1784), http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/CCREAD/etscc/kant.html.

89 Anti-intellectualism: Hubert Humphrey, Speech to Student Council Association and DFL Dinner, Thief River Falls (cancelled, press release and text), November 8, 1957, http://www.mnhs.org/library/findaids/00442/pdfa/00442-00663.pdf.

89 We can be absolutely certain: Eric Hoffer, True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (New York: Harper Perennial, 2010), 80–81.

89 The point of philosophy: Bertrand Russell, Logic and Knowledge : Essays 1901–1950 (Nottingham, UK: Spokesman Books, 2007), 193.

90 Bombs and pistols: Bhagat Singh, Indian revolutionary and member of the Indian Independence Movement (1907–1931), “Statement Before the Lahore High Court Bench,” (1930), http://www.marxists.org/archive/bhagat-singh/1930/x01/x01.htm.

90 We must think critically: Tim Minchin, Occasional Address, University of Western Australia, September 2013, http://www.timminchin.com/2013/09/25/occasional-address/.

90 In the history of physics: Lisa Randall, in Corey S. Powell, “The Discover Interview: Lisa Randall,” Discover, July 29, 2006, http://discovermagazine.com/2006/jul/interview-randall/#.UyjMEOPZ-T8.

90 Why can’t somebody give us a list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Professor at the Breakfast Table (London: J. M. Dent, 1906), 143.

90 The mind of man is capable of anything: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (New York: Penguin, 2012), 70.

90 The intellectual life of man: Julian Jaynes, American psychologist (1920–1997), The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000), 9.

91 The universe consists primarily of dark matter: Joel Gold, associate professor of psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine, “The Dark Matter of the Mind,” in John Brockman, ed., This Explains Everything (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013), 23.

91 Books and opinions: Ernestine Rose, American abolitionist, feminist, and atheist activist (1810– 1892), speech at the Seventh National Woman’s Rights Convention, New York, November 25–26, 1856, quoted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ida Husted Harper, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Susan B. Anthony, History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (Salem, NH: Ayer Company, 1881), 661–663.

91 Those who read: Werner Herzog, in Paul Cronin and Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog (London: Faber & Faber, 2003), 37. 91 What progress we are making: , letter to Ernest Jones (1933), quoted in Robert Andrews, ed., The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993), 779.

91 The effort to understand the universe: , American Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1979, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (New York: Basic Books, 1993), 155.

92 If you want to have good ideas: , quoted by Francis Crick in “The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology,” Conference: The Life and Work of Linus Pauling (1901–1994): A Discourse on the Art of Biography, Oregon State University (February 28–March 2, 1995), http://scarc.library.oregonstate.edu/events/1995paulingconference/video-s1-2-crick.html.

92 Overcoming naive impressions: Steven Pinker, “Can You Believe in God and Evolution?,” Time, August 7, 2005, http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/2005_08_07_time.html.

92 Bid farewell to ideologies: Gao Xingjian, Chinese writer, critic, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 2000, in Horace Engdahl, ed., Witness Literature: Proceedings of the Nobel Centennial Symposium (Singapore: World Scientific, 2002), 140.

92 I can’t understand why people are frightened: John Cage, quoted in Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (New York: Penguin, 2012), epigraph.

92 I know nothing: Socrates (ca. 470 BCE–399 BCE), in Andrea Nightingale and David Sedley, Ancient Models of Mind: Studies in Human and Divine Rationality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 72.

92 The only way I can tell: , Jewish-American (born in Germany) winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics, 1925 (1882–1964), in Gerald deGroot, The Bomb: A Life (New York: Random House, 2011), 12.

93 We used to think that if we knew one: Sir Arthur Eddington, British astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (1882–1944), quoted in Karl Sabbagh, The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics (Boston: Macmillan, 2003), 39.

93 Contradiction is the essence: Fernando Pessoa, “A Nova Poesia Portuguesa no Seu Aspecto Psicológico,” in A Águia, Porto, September 1912, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fernando_Pessoa.

93 So in the end when one is doing philosophy: Ludwig Wittgenstein, in Oswald Hanfling, Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (New York: Routledge, 2002), 39.

93 There is nothing so absurd: (106 BCE–43 BCE), quoted in Phillip Hoffman, Nothing So Absurd: An Invitation to Philosophy (Ontario: Broadview Press, 2003), 1.

93 have to do: Ellen Gilchrist, Falling Through Space (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2000), 13. 93 A formal manipulator: Howard W. Eves (1911–2004), American mathematician and historian, Mathematical Circles: A Selection of Mathematical Stories and Anecdotes: Quadrants I, II, III, and IV (Mathematical Association of America, 2002), 52.

93The most technologically efficient machine: Northrop Frye, Canadian literary theorist and critic (1912–1991), quoted in Claus Grupen, Astroparticle Physics (New York: Springer, 2005), ix.

94 When someone says that life would not exist: PZ Myers, “On ‘Taking Science on Faith,’ ” The Reality Club (2007), http://www.edge.org/discourse/science_faith.html.

94 Man can learn nothing: Claude Bernard, French physiologist (1813–1878), Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, vol. IV (1928), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Claude_Bernard.

94 The capacity for discerning the essential truth: H. L. Mencken, “Homo Sapiens,” in Mencken Chrestomathy (New York: Random House, 2012), 8.

94 You know everybody is ignorant: , “From Nuts to the Soup,” The New York Times, August 31, 1924, http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50A12F83D551B7A93C3AA1783D85F408285F9.

94 Let us reflect: Thomas Jefferson, Query XVII, Notes on the State of Virginia, 1785, http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/jefferson/ch17.html.

95 Man is always ready to die for an idea: Paul Eldridge, American author (1888–1982), quoted in Reader’s Digest, vol. 82, 1963.

95 The future is disorder: Valentine, in Tom Stoppard, act I, scene 4, Arcadia (London: Faber & Faber, 1994).

95 A system that makes no errors: Gerd Gigerenzer, “Unconscious Inferences,” in John Brockman, ed., This Explains Everything (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013), 58.

Identity

96 Be plural: Fernando Pessoa, Páginas Íntimas e de Auto Interpretação (1966), in Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul F. Rouzer, Harris Feinsod, David Marno, and Alexandra Slessarev, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012), 627.

96 A man becomes his attentions: William Least Heat-Moon, Blue Highways: A Journey Into America (New York: Little, Brown, 2012), 17.

96 Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment: Aldo Leopold, Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold (New York: Oxford University Press, 1953), 8.

96 I don’t know what I’m like: Jane Campion, “This Much I Know,” The Guardian (UK), July 6, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jul/06/jane-campion-this-much-i-know. 96 The electric meat!: Michael Shermer, “The Joys of Life Without God,” Salon, August 23, 2006, http://www.salon.com/2006/08/23/shermer_2/.

96 To assign unanswered letters: Joan Didion, “On Self-Respect,” Slouching Towards Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008), 148.

97 The self is not so much linked to its ancestors: Erwin Schrödinger, “My View of the World” (1961), http://kocebu.com/v4/1327.pdf.

97 What they call you is one thing: Lucille Clifton, quoted in , “Fooling with Words: Lucille Clifton,” PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/foolingwithwords/t_txtclifton.html.

97 Sometimes it happens that a man’s circle of horizon: David Hilbert, German mathematician (1862– 1943), in Constance Reid, Hilbert (New York: Springer, 1996), 174.

97 You are an intelligent human being: , American atheist activist, copresident of the Freedom from Religion Foundation and former Christian preacher, Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist (Freedom from Religion Foundation, 1992), 233.

98 Each of us is a singular narrative: Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), 110–111.

98 To the dumb question: Christopher Hitchens, Mortality (2012), quoted in Christopher Buckley, “Staying Power,” The New York Times, August 30, 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/02/books/review/mortality-by-christopher-hitchens.html?_r=0.

98 I have heard many people speak of who they believe they were: Stephen Levine, A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last (New York: Random House, 2009), 171.

98 You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe: Alan Watts, “The Nature of Consciousness” (1960), http://www.erowid.org/culture/characters/watts_alan/watts_alan_article1.shtml.

98 We did not ask to be born: Kenneth L. Patton, The Sense of Life: The Meaning and Mysticism of Natural Religion (Ridgewood, NJ: Meeting House Press, 1974), 130.

99 He did not make any concessions, period: Fran Lebowitz, on the author James Purdy, “A Fabulist Haunting the Fringes,” The New York Times, August 26, 2013.

99 I know that personality is just an invention: Sheila Heti, Prologue, How Should a Person Be? A Novel from Life (New York: Macmillan, 2010).

99 Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be: Jorge Luis Borges, “A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz,” in The Aleph (1949), trans. Andrew Hurley, Collected Fictions (New York: Penguin, 1998), 41.

99 People seem not to see: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Conduct of Life,” in The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol. 1 (Boston: Jefferson Press, 1888), 247. 99 A faculty for idleness: Robert Louis Stevenson, “An Apology for Idlers,” in H. G. Rawlinson, Selected Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson (1929), https://archive.org/details/SelectedEassaysOfRobertLouisStevenson.

99 The number of the human specimen: Milan Kundera, Immortality (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), 12.

100 My own mind: Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794), in Thomas Paine, The Thomas Paine Reader (London: Penguin, 2004), 303.

100 All beings alive today are equally evolved: Lynn Margulis, Symbiotic Planet: A New Look at Evolution (New York: Basic Books, 1999), 3–4.

100 I am an abyss: W. S. Merwin, “Abyss,” The Book of Fables (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2007), 147.

100 When I got untethered: Brad Pitt, “Brad Pitt,” Freedom from Religion Foundation, https://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14712-brad-pitt.

100 Man’s character: Heraclitus (535–475 BCE), in Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Pre-Platonic Philosophers (Champaign: University of Press, 2001), 73.

100 Damaged people: Josephine Hart, Damage (2010), quoted in Peter Guttridge, obituary for Josephine Hart , The Independent (UK), June 8, 2011, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/josephine- hart-novelist-best-known-for-lsquodamagersquo-who-was-also-a-producer-presenter-and-a-passionate- advocate-for-poetry-2294197.html.

101 Self-sufficiency: Epicurus, in Eugene Michael O’Connor, ed., The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993), 99.

101 Now, nothing should be able to harm a man: Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), in Oscar Wilde, The Works of Oscar Wilde (Douglas Books, 2013), 315.

101 We are all alone: Hunter S. Thompson, letter to Eleanor McGarr, August 17, 1960, in Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955–1967 (New York: Random House, 2012), 225.

101 Ignorance more frequently: Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871), http://darwin- online.org.uk/EditorialIntroductions/Freeman_TheDescentofMan.html.

101 Style is knowing who you are: Gore Vidal, “Gore Vidal Quotes: 26 of the Best,” The Guardian (UK), August 1, 2012, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/01/gore-vidal-best-quotes.

101 If you don’t have self-esteem: Margaret Cho, The Notorious C.H.O. comedy tour (2002), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho#The_Notorious_C.H.O._Tour.

102 Nothing is better for self-esteem: Martha Gellhorn, Travels with Myself and Another: A Memoir (New York: Penguin, 1978), 27. 102 Some part of our being: Carl Sagan, “The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean” (episode 1), Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, 1980/updated 1990, directed by Adrian Malone, PBS.

Kindness

103 I respect kindness to human beings: Brendan Behan, The Letters of Brendan Behan (Montreal: McGill-Queens Press, 1992), 179.

103 If you can’t be kind: Judith Martin, attributed. See Goodreads.com: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/41758-if-you-can-t-be-kind-at-least-be-vague.

103 I have something that I call my Golden Rule: Linus Pauling, lecture at Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey, California, 1961, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling.

103 I shall go down: Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013), 38.

104 They call us romantics: Fridtjof Nansen, Norwegian explorer, scientist, and humanitarian and Nobel Prize winner for Peace, 1929 (1861–1930), “The Suffering People of Europe,” Nobel Lecture, December 19, 1922, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1922/nansen-lecture.html.

104 “Kindness” covers all of my political beliefs: Roger Ebert, “I Do Not Fear Death,” Salon, September 15, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/09/15/roger_ebert/ .

104 Shall we make a new rule: J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens (1902), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1376/1376-h/1376-h.htm.

104 My religion is very simple: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, in Trilok Chandra Majupuria and Indra Majupuria, Tibet, a Guide to the Land of Fascination: An Overall Perspective of Tibet of the Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Periods (Lashkar, India: S. Devi, 1988), 84.

104 It’s a little embarrassing: Aldous Huxley, in Milton Birnbaum, A Quest for Values (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2006), xv.

104 Three things in human life are important: William James, in Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life, vol. V: The Master 1901–1916 (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 523.

105 If we could read the secret history: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Drift-Wood,” The Prose Works, (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1866), 362.

105 That’s one of the things the illness has given me: Michael J. Fox, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, December 17, 2007, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/michaeljfox0108.

105 Life teaches us to be less harsh: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenie auf Tauris, act IV, scene 4. (1787), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Johann_Wolfgang_von_Goethe.

105 I have found that the only thing: David Letterman, in Dave Itzkoff, “A Traitor to His Class? Such Good Fun,” The New York Times, November 5, 2013, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/05/books/david- letterman-scold-of-the-0-1-percent.html. 105 Let’s all give each other a pass: David Rakoff, Half Empty (New York: Doubleday, 2010), 217.

Life

106 There is no wealth: John Ruskin, Unto This Last (Minneapolis: Filiquarian Publishing, 2007), 90.

106 Life divides into AMAZING ENJOYABLE TIMES: Caitlin Moran, “My Posthumous Advice for My Daughter,” The Times Magazine (UK), July 13, 2013, http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/magazine/article3811080.ece.

106 The most salient feature of existence: Richard Powers, “Art Is a Way of Saying,” December 4, 2009, https://poempig.wordpress.com/category/poets/richard-powers/.

106 Hope for the best: Mel Brooks, The Twelve Chairs, 1970, film, written and directed by Mel Brooks, UMC.

106 Looking outward: Loren Acton, in Daniel B. Botkin, No Man’s Garden: Thoreau and A New Vision for Civilization and Nature (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2001), 192.

107 We all have a better guide: Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1906), 429.

107 When a person is born: Anton Chekhov, Fatherlessness (1878), act I, scene xiv.

107 After I stopped believing in God: Julia Sweeney, in David Ian Miller, “Finding My Religion,” SF Gate, August 15, 2005, http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/FINDING-MY-RELIGION-Julia-Sweeney- talks-about-3171384.php#page-2.

107 One of the goals of education: Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (New York: Harper, 1954), 255.

108 Life is without meaning: Joseph Campbell, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2011), 10.

108 Spontaneous creation is the reason: , The Grand Design (New York: Bantam Books, 2011), quoted in Adam Gabbatt, “Stephen Hawking Says Universe Not Created by God,” The Guardian (UK), , 2010, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking- big-bang-creator.

108 It is hard to master both life and work: Joseph Brodsky, “The Art of Poetry No. 28,” The Paris Review, December 1979, http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3184/the-art-of-poetry-no-28-joseph- brodsky.

108 Life cannot be meaningless: Paula Kirby, “The Pointless Hellishness of Heaven,” The Washington Post, March 16, 2011, http://www.washingtonpost.com/paula-kirby/2011/03/16/ABggtJg_page.html.

108 Women get more radical: Gloria Steinem and Phyllis Rosser, in Gloria Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions (New York: Holt, 1983), 134. 108 The main effort of arranging your life: Norman Rush, Mating (New York: Random House, 2011), 194.

108 I don’t know why we live: Henry James, letter to Grace Norton, July 28, 1883, in Henry James, Henry James: Selected Letters (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1987), 191.

109 We die: Toni Morrison, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 102.

109 A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere: Diana Vreeland, in Lisa Immordino Vreeland, “Diana Vreeland,” Harper’s Bazaar, August 26, 2001, http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/diana- vreeland-bazaar-years-0911.

109 I have no faith: E. B. White, letter to Mary Virginia Parrish, August 29, 1969, in E. B. White and Martha White, In the Words of E. B. White: Quotations from America’s Most Companionable of Writers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), 138.

109 The word “holiday”: Penn Jillette, Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday! More Magical Tales from the Author of God, No! (New York: Plume, 2013), 9.

110 If you want my opinion on the mystery of life: Peter De Vries, John Lloyd, and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 228.

110 It isn’t length of life: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Concerning Immortality,” in George Willis Cooke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, His Life, Writings, and Philosophy (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881), 353.

110 May you live: Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation (London: Joseph Wenman, 1738), 98.

110 The art of life: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, VII, 61 (161–180, CE), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius.

110 For man the vast marvel: D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse (1930), quoted in Jeffrey Meyers, D. H. Lawrence: A Biography (New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002), 353.

111 Life engenders life: Sarah Bernhardt, quoted in Cornelia Otis Skinner, Madame Sarah (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966), xvi.

111 When we compare the present life of man on earth: The Venerable Bede (672–735 C.), in Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England, trans. A. M. Sellar (London: George Bell & Sons, 1907), 117, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/38326/38326-h/38326-h.html.

111 The two entities who might enlighten us: E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel (London: Edward Arnold, 1927), 76.

112 We are born. We eat sweet potatoes: Easter Island proverb, John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (London: Faber & Faber, 2008),189. 112 It makes me laugh to recall: Leo Tolstoy, letter to Tatiana Ergolskaia, 1857, in Thomas Newlin, The Voice in the Garden: Andrei Bolotov and the Anxieties of Russian Pastoral, 1788–1833 (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2001), 187.

112 What people commonly call Fate: Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims (S. Sonnenschein & Company, Ltd., 1891), 122.

112 In fact, not a shred of evidence: Brendan Gill, Here at The New Yorker (New York: Random House, 1975), 49.

113 How we spend our days: Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (1990), quoted in Maria Popova, “How We Spend Our Days,” Brainpickings, June 7, 2013, http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/06/07/annie-dillard-the-writing-life-1/.

113 Life is intrinsically: Edward Gorey, quoted in Robert Dessaix, “The Grand Illusion,” Robyn Davidson, ed., The Best Australian Essays (Victoria, Australia: Black Inc., 2009), 202.

113 One life is enough: Albert Einstein, in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 387.

113 Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film: Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories (New York: Verso, 1990), 63.

113 To none is life given in freehold: Titus Lucretius Carus, On the Nature of the Universe (New York: Penguin, 1951), 91.

113 Life is something to do: Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life (New York: Dutton, 1978), 101.

113 If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment: Herman Hesse, quoted in Timothy Leary, The Politics of Ecstasy (Berkeley: Ronin Publishing, 1998), 180.

114 Will I leave a scratch on a rock?: Deeda Blair, philanthropist and biomedical advisor, in Andrew Solomon, “Deeda Blair’s Elegance of Conviction,” T Magazine, May 31, 2013, http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/deeda-blairs-elegance-of-conviction/.

114 The point of being over forty: Guillermo del Toro, film director, “10 Questions for Guillermo del Toro,” Time, September 5, 2011, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2090370,00.html.

114 The older you are: David Brower, in Studs Terkel, Coming of Age (1995), quoted in “Coming of Age: Kirkus Review,” Kirkus, July 1, 1995, https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/studs- terkel/coming-of-age-4/.

114 It’s better to fade away: John Lennon, Playboy Interview (1980), quoted in David Sheff, All We Are Saying: The Last Major Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono (New York: Macmillan, 2010), 57.

114 One does not get better: Gertrude Stein, letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, May 22, 1925, published in F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (New York: New Directions, 2009), 308. 114 Life, however long: Wisława Szymborska, “Our Ancestors’ Short Lives,” View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 143.

115 You know, some people say life is short: , I Think I Love My Wife, film, 2007, written by Chris Rock and Louis C. K., directed by Chris Rock, Fox Searchlight Pictures.

115 Let us toast to animal pleasures: Hunter S. Thompson, letter to Sally Williams, January 17, 1958, in Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955–1967 (New York: Random House, 2012), 101.

115 However mean your life is: Henry David Thoreau, Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, ch. 1 (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), 243.

115 You don’t get to choose: Joan Baez, Daybreak (New York: The Dial Press, 1968), 135.

115 I prefer . . . the laughers: Michel Onfray, French philosopher, atheist, and author, “Atheist Manifesto,” in Eleanor Wroblewski, “Michael Onfray,” Freedom from Religion Foundation, http://ffrf.org/news/day/dayitems/item/14847-michel-onfray.

116 When you consider the world: Anton “Reggie” Dunnigan, member of The Cockettes, quoted in Daniel Reich, “Bearded Ladies,” issue 69, Frieze, September 2002, http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/bearded_ladies/.

116 Life is short, short, brother!: E. Y. “Yip” Harburg, lyrics, “Ain’t It the Truth,” Jamaica: Original Broadway Cast, 1957, Harold Arlen, composer. Performed by Lena Horne, RCA Victor.

116 “What is the meaning of life?” is a stupid question: Jackie Mason, “The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture,” Life, December 1988, http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-037.html.

116 Stranger, here you will do well: Epicurus (341–270 BCE), quoted in Seneca, Epistle XXI of Epistulae morales ad Lucilium, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger.

116 I have a very simple creed: Bertrand Russell, speech on his ninetieth birthday, May 18, 1962, quoted in Bertrand Russell, Autobiography (New York: Routledge, 2009), 595.

117 I don’t believe in life after death: Natalie Angier, “My God Problem,” The American Scholar 72, no. 2 (Spring 2004), reprinted in Council for Secular Humanism, http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/angier_24_5.htm.

117 We could stop being lost: Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), 39.

117 Is not life a hundred times too short: Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (London: Allen & Unwin, 1907), 173.

117 If there is a sin against life: Albert Camus, “Summer in Algiers,” in The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays (New York: Vintage, 1991),153. 117 The great end of life: Thomas Huxley, “Technical Education,” T. H. Huxley on Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971),162.

117 The true meaning of life: Nelson Henderson, cited by Jason Henderson at Grhgraph’s Blog, February 21, 2014, http://grhgraph.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/the-true-meaning-of-life-is-to-plant-trees- under-whose-shade-you-do-not-expect-to-sit-nelson-henderson/.

118 Given something like death: Diane Ackerman, Deep Play (New York: Random House, 2011), 196.

118 Prime numbers are what is left: Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (New York: Random House, 2009), 12.

118 I’ve learned what I can control: Gilda Radner, It’s Always Something (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2009),186.

118 I’m not telling you to make the world better: Joan Didion, Commencement Address, UC Riverside, 1975, quoted in Rachel Donadio, “Every Day Is All There Is,” The New York Times, October 9, 2005, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/09/books/review/09donadio.html?pagewanted=all.

119 What’s to come is still unsure: William Shakespeare, “O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming,” Twelfth Night, act II, scene 3, http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20239.

119 Our obligation is to give meaning to life: Elie Wiesel, “The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture,” Life, December 1988, http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-037.html.

119 We are all here to see: John Burroughs, Accepting the Universe (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920), 10.

119 The question is: What’s the mill?: Philip Glass, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, January 9, 2009, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/philip-glass-quotes-0109.

120 I wish to live: Lorraine Hansberry, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (New York: Vintage, 1996), 100.

120 The purpose of life is to stay alive: Michael Crichton, Congo (New York: Random House, 2012), 165.

120 Life is a tragedy: Charlie Chaplin, in Robert Andrews, The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989), 53.

120 Philosophy is written in this grand book: Galileo Galilei, in Richard Henry Popkin, The Philosophy of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966), 65.

121 The only reason for life is life: George Lucas, in David Friend, The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here (1991), quoted in Maria Popova, “George Lucas on the Meaning of Life,” Brainpickings, March 17, 2014, http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/03/17/george-lucas-meaning-of-life/. 121 My life seemed to be a series: , whose work on fractal geometry revealed order within chaos in natural forms, in Valerie Jamieson, “A Fractal Life,” New Scientist, November 2004, http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18424736.200-a-fractal-life.html.

120 Life has to be given a meaning: Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart (New York: New Directions, 1941), 5.

121 What the meaning of human life may be I don’t know: H. L. Mencken, letter to Will Durant, July1931, reprinted at Letters of Note, http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/on-meaning-of-life.html.

121 It is the useless things: Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot (New York: Soho Press, 2011), 202.

121 I think we are a part: Janna Levin, American theoretical cosmologist, “Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth,” interviewed by Krista Tippett, On Being, April 2, 2014, http://www.onbeing.org/program/janna- levin-—-mathematics-purpose-and-truth/transcript/6243#main_content.

122 No why: John Cage, “The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture,” Life, December 1988, http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/life/905W-000-037.html.

122 If there is no point in the universe: Steven Weinberg, in Nancy K. Frankenberry, The Faith of Scientists: In Their Own Words (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 336.

122 Good taste: Oscar Wilde, in Oscar Wilde, Epigrams of Oscar Wilde (Ware, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 2007), 63.

123 I believe that I am not responsible: Hermann Hesse, in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 14.

123 If, after all, men cannot always make history: Albert Camus, Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays (New York: Random House, 2012), 106.

123 I meet a lot of people: Kurt Vonnegut, interviewed by David Brancaccio, NOW-PBS, October 7, 2005, http://www.pbs.org/now/transcript/transcriptNOW140_full.html.

123 Life, if thou knowest: Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE), De Brevitate Vitæ. II, http://www.bartleby.com/78/476.html.

123 Life and love are life and love: D. H. Lawrence, “Do Women Change,” D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004),153.

123 As far as we can discern: Carl Jung, in Fred R. Shapiro, The Yale Book of Quotations (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), 411.

124 That life is worth living: George Santayana, The Life of Reason: Or, the Phases of Human Progress, vol. 1 (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1920), 252.

124 We are here for just a spell: Will Rogers, in Richard M. Ketchum, Will Rogers, His Life and Times (American Heritage Publishing/McGraw-Hill, 1973), 213. 124 There is not one big cosmic meaning: Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 1, 1931–1934 (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1969), vii.

124 To be what we are: Robert Louis Stevenson, “Henry David Thoreau: His Character and Opinions,” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Familiar Studies, A Family of Engineers, and an Essay on Stevenson (New York: Davos Press, 1906), 112.

124 Because children grow up: Tom Stoppard, The Coast of Utopia Trilogy: Shipwreck (New York: Faber & Faber, 2013), 223.

125 All men should strive: James Thurber, Further Fables for Our Time (1960), in Daniel Schachter, Daniel T. Gilbert, and Daniel M. Wegner, Psychology (New York: Macmillan, 2010), 341.

125 Beyond work and love: Michio Kaku, Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (New York: Random House, 2006), 359.

125 Everyone seems to have a clear idea: Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (New York: HarperCollins, 2006), 16.

126 Ye know full well: Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight (New York: HarperCollins, 2011), 86.

126 A life that partakes: Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22 (New York: Twelve, 2011), 329.

126 Well, it’s nothing very special: Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, film, written by Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin; directed by Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam, 1983, Celandine Films, The Monty Python Partnership, Universal Pictures.

126 The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here: Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address,” November 19, 1863. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/gettysburg-address/.

Love

127 All that you’ve loved: Tom Waits, “Take It with Me,” Mule Variations, CD, Anti- Records, 1999.

127 Love does not rule: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily (Newburyport: Red Wheel/Weiser, 1992), 37.

127 Love is not a desire for beauty: Octavio Paz, The Double Flame (New York: Mariner Books, 1996), 154.

127 To love another human: Louise Erdrich, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (New York: Harper Perennial, 2009), 331.

127 I say this is a wild dream: Henry Miller, letter to Anaïs Nin, August 14, 1932, Letters of Note, http://www.lettersofnote.com/2013/02/dont-expect-me-to-be-sane-anymore.html.

128 When I saw you I fell in love: Arrigo Boito and Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff: Commedia Lirica in Tre Atti (lyrical comedy in three acts), music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Arrigo Boito (Milan, Italy: Edizioni Ricordi: G. Ricordi & Co., 1893), 77. 128 The best thing you can possibly do with your life: Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar (New York: Vintage, 2012), 15.

128 Perhaps the feelings: Anton Chekhov, in Michael Finke, Seeing Chekhov: Life and Art (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press: 2005), 224.

128 And don’t worry about losing: John Steinbeck, letter to his son, November 1958, in Letters of Note, http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/nothing-good-gets-away.html#.

128 Man has conquered whole nations: Emma Goldman, “Marriage and Love,” in Anarchism and Other Essays (Mundus Publishing, 2007), 102.

128 I urge you all today: Margaret Cho, The Notorious C.H.O. comedy tour (2002), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Margaret_Cho#The_Notorious_C.H.O._Tour.

129 Not every problem: Herbert Marcuse, The Listener magazine, 1978, in International Herbert Marcuse Society, https://sites.google.com/site/marcusesociety/quotations.

129 Being with you: Jorge Luis Borges, “The Threatened One,” in Jorge Luis Borges, author, and Emir Rodriguez Madrigal and Alistair Reid, eds., Borges: A Reader (New York: Dutton, 1981), 319.

129 The true beloveds: Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (New York: Random House, 2007), 120.

129 Love is a snowmobile: Matt Groening, “Chapter 1: What Is Love?,” Love Is Hell (New York: Random House, 1986), 1.

129 Love takes off masks: James Baldwin, “The Fire Next Time,” in The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948–1985 (New York: Macmillan, 1985), 375.

130 Love is the extremely difficult realization: Iris Murdoch, “The Sublime and the Good,” in The Chicago Review, 13, no. 3 (Autumn 1959): 51.

130 You cannot save people: Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin, vol. 2, 1934–1939 (New York: The Swallow Press, 1967), 338.

130 Nothing is far: Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1915), 75–76.

130 I don’t think there’s any difference: Leonard Cohen, interviewed by Anjelica Huston, Interview, November 1995, http://hi.baidu.com/onecuptea/item/14924741068f9ee0bcf45170.

130 Say I love you: George Eliot, quoted by Anne Thackeray, in Hester Thackeray Ritchie, ed., Thackeray and His Daughter: The Letters and Journals of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, with Many Letters of William Makepeace Thackeray (New York: Harper, 1924), 270.

131 I tell you: Vincent Van Gogh, letter to his brother Theo, 1888, in Nathalie Heinich, The Glory of Van Gogh: An Anthropology of Admiration (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997), 41. 131 No matter what you’re feeling: Christiane Northrup, The Wisdom of Menopause (Carlsbad: Hay House, 2012), 67.

131 Love is anterior to life: Emily Dickinson, Poem 37, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi, ed., The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1924), http://www.bartleby.com/113/3037.html.

131 For small creatures: Carl Sagan, Contact (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 430.

Morality

132 There are far too many commandments: Carl Reiner, in Rich Freedman, “Leaving Room for ‘Desserts,’ ” JWeekly, November 12, 2009, http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/40475/leaving-room-for- desserts-prolific-funnyman-carl-reiner-reflects-on-his-car/.

132 I stopped believing: Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (New York: Yearling, 2003), 447.

132 The superior man: Confucius, The Analects of Confucius (ca. 210 BCE), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Confucius.

132 The greatest tragedy: Arthur C. Clarke, “Credo” (1991); also in Greetings, Carbon-Based Bipeds! Collected Essays, 1934–1998 (New York: Macmillan, 2001), 360.

132 Until the lions: Chinua Achebe, “In Their Own Words,” The Guardian (UK), December 28, 2013, http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/dec/28/literary-giants-died-2013.

133 If you don’t stick to your values: Jon Stewart, The Daily Show, January 22, 2009, http://thedailyshow.cc.com.

133 If I had a large amount of money: Stephen Fry, “Trefusis on Any Questions,” Paperweight (London: Arrow Books, 1997), 61.

133 The fact that a belief: Bertrand Russell, BBC Radio Debate on the Existence of God, Russell vs. Copleston, 1948, http://www.philvaz.com/apologetics/p20.htm.

133 I believe the only reality: Joss Whedon, quoted in “Harvard Atheists, Humanists to Honor TV Icon Whedon,” Secular Student Alliance, Harvard University, March 30, 2009, https://www.secularstudents.org/node/2398.

133 Equality is not the empirical claim: Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Penguin, 2002), 340.

133 If we’re going to live an ethical life: Peter Singer, “The Why and How of Effective Altruism,” TED Talk, March 2013, https://www.ted.com/talks/peter_singer_the_why_and_how_of_effective_altruism.

134 All the world’s major religions: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, Facebook post, September 10, 2012, https://www.facebook.com/DalaiLama/posts/10151052842097616.

134 The one and only test: Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness (New York: Anchor, 2005), 293. 134 I’m not a believer in predetermined fates: Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, in Marvin Olasky, “Autumn of a Book Lover’s Contentment,” World Magazine, October 7, 2006.

134 We must always take sides: Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, December 10, 1986, in Mark Chmiel, Elie Wiesel and the Politics of Moral Leadership (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001), 51.

135 From time to time: , Jr., “I’d Hate Myself in the Morning,” The New York Times, November 26, 2000, http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/26/reviews/001126.26boswort.html.

135 The only lies: V. S. Naipaul, In a Free State (New York: Random House, 2011), 159.

135 To be good is noble: Mark Twain, in Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain: A Biography, vol. 4 (New York: Harper, 1912), 1472.

135 What is good: Friedrich Nietzsche, “On War and Warriors,” The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Penguin, 1977), 186.

135 Sin lies only in hurting others: Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (New York: Ace, 1987), 352.

135 When you go out to seek revenge: Chinese proverb, in David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton, Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 149–150.

136 The moral high ground: Arthur Miller, in Arthur Miller, author, and Steve Centola, ed., Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944–2000 (New York: Penguin, 2001), 280.

136 Go to work: R. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (Zurich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2008), 138.

136 Far from idleness: Søren Kierkegaard, The Difficulty of Being Christian (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968), 142.

136 Waste no more time: Marcus Aurelius (121–180, CE), Meditation, book X, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marcus_Aurelius.

136 On the whole: George Orwell, My Country, Right or Left (New York: David R. Godine, 2000), 165.

136 I think a man’s duty: Plato, quoted in James Christian, Philosophy: An Invitation to the Art of Wondering (Boston: Cengage Learning, 2011), 52.

137 Conscientious people: George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1860), 476.

137 You’ve got to have something to eat: Billie Holiday, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 33. 137 If I exorcise my devils: Tom Waits, “Please Call Me, Baby,” The Heart of Saturday Night, 1974, Asylum Records.

137 There is no moral obligation: Carl Van Doren, “Why I Am an Unbeliever,” 1926, http://www.skeptically.org/thinkersonreligion/id10.html.

137 Philosophers and theologians: Louis Agassiz, in Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence, vol. 2 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), 781.

137 He judges not: Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855), v, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1322/1322-h/1322-h.htm.

137 The needle of our conscience: Ruth Wolff, quoted in Karen Weekes, Women Know Everything! (Philadelphia: Quirk Books, 2011), 39.

137 It is almost impossible: Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels, in The Six Greatest Novels of Anatole France (Garden City, NY: Garden CityPublishing Co., 1914), 464.

138 The good die young: John Barrymore, quoted in Life, January 3, 1918, 3. Reprinted in John Ames Mitchell, ed., Life, vol. 71, Google eBook.

138 Grub first: Bertolt Brecht, The Threepenny Opera (1928), in Iris J. Arnesen, Nine Famous Operas: What’s Really Going On (McFarland, 2010), 183.

138 Morality is simply: Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband, act II, in The Plays of Oscar Wilde, vol. II (J. W. Luce, 1905), 66.

138 Moral indignation: H. G. Wells, The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1914), 299.

138 A man’s ethical behavior: Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1999), 29.

139 There is only one good: Socrates, in Diogenes Laertius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1901), 68.

139 Yet no matter how evil your enemy is: Joseph Brodsky, “A Commencement Address,” Less Than One: Selected Essays (New York: Macmillan, 1986), 387.

139 The belief in a single truth: , “Symbol and Reality,” in Physics in My Generation (1969), quoted in Michael Frayn, The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe (London: Faber & Faber, 2009), 478.

139 Boredom is a root: Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life (New York: Penguin, 2004), 228.

139 What is hell?: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Macmillan, 1922), 343.

139 Hell is just: Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit, trans. Paul Bowles (New York: Samuel French, 1958), 6. 139 Whatever the future may have in store for us: Frederick Douglass, “Address Before the International Council of Women,” March 31, 1888, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000), 710.

140 Sometimes, I feel discriminated against: Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928), in Zora Neale Hurston, author, and Alice Walker, editor, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing . . . and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 1979), 155.

140 The meek shall inherit: J. Paul Getty, attributed. See: “J. Paul Getty,” Wikipedia.org, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty#cite_note-Manser2007-8.

140 If there is no great glorious end: Joss Whedon, in Katia McClain, AmiJo Comerford, and Tamy Burnett, The Literary Angel: Essays on Influence and Traditions Reflected in the Joss Whedon Series (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2010), 140.

140 The only way I can pay back: Martha Gellhorn, in Caroline Moorehead, Gellhorn: A Twentieth Century Life (New York: Holt, 2004), 142.

140 When a stupid man: George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra, act III, scene 1 (1901), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3329/3329-h/3329-h.htm.

140 The real definition of loneliness: Nadine Gordimer, Burger’s Daughter (1979), in Nancy Topping Bazin and Marilyn Dallman Seymour, Conversations with Nadine Gordimer (Oxford: University of Mississippi, 1990), 97.

141 We did our duty: Miep Gies, “Anne Frank Diary Guardian Miep Gies Dies Aged 100,” BBC News, January 12, 2010, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8453331.stm.

141 People everywhere enjoy: Brooks Atkinson, Once Around the Sun (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1951), 37.

141 Microbiology and meterology: Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine, 1996), 26.

141 There are no heroes in this war: Ernest Hemingway, “Dear Folks,” October 18, 1918, Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917–1961 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003), 19.

141 Take me to the driest county: , Skipping Towards Gomorrah (New York: Plume, 2003), 235.

141 You can resolve to live your life: , letter to the Russian Orthodox bishops (1974), quoted in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 17.

142 I used to be Snow White: Mae West, I’m No Angel, written by Mae West, directed by Wesley Ruggles, 1933, film, Paramount Pictures. 142 Nothing is more unpleasant: Walter Bagehot, The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton (Charleston, SC: Nabu Press, 2012), 236.

142 What men call social virtues: Henry David Thoreau, The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837–1846, 1850–Nov. 3, 1861 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906), 397.

142 Though I obviously have no proof: Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (New York: Scribner, 2004), 238.

142 A man is basically: Chris Rock, Bigger and Blacker, HBO Films, 1993, comedy special.

142 True character arises from a deeper well: E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: Random House, 1998), 269.

Mystery

144 Something unknown: Sir Arthur Eddington, in Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain (New York: Scribner, 2005), 19.

144 Penetrating so many secrets: H. L. Mencken, Minority Report (New York: Random House, 2013), 363.

144 There will come a time: Seneca, Natural Questions, book 7, first century CE, quoted in Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine, 2013), xvi.

144 Life has unfathomable secrets: Jean-Henri Fabre, The Life of the Spider (Dodd, Mead, 1912), 34.

145 As the Greeks sensibly believed: Gore Vidal, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, August 1, 2012, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/gore-vidal-0608.

145 Science has “explained” nothing: Aldous Huxley, in Nicholas Murray, Aldous Huxley: A Biography (New York: Macmillan, 2003), 174.

145 I have a policy about that word “soul”: Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001), 200.

145 Not how the world is: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1922), 187.

145 Unseen, in the background: P.G. Wodehouse, Very Good, Jeeves (New York: Penguin, 1930), 183.

145 The whole problem: Aaron Copland, “How We Listen” (1939), in Richard Kostelanetz, Aaron Copland: A Reader (New York: Routledge, 2004), 4.

146 Somewhere, something incredible: David Gelman, Sharon Begley, Dewey Gram, and Evert Clark, “Seeking Other Worlds” (Carl Sagan profile), Newsweek, August 15, 1977, 46. Note: This quotation is often misattributed to Carl Sagan. See the Quote Investigator: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/18/incredible/. 146 When we have found all the mysteries: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, scene 7, in Plays 5: Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood (New York: Macmillan, 1999), 132.

146 It is not peace: Lawrence Durrell, “The Reckoning,” in Collected Poems of Lawrence Durrell, 1931–1974 (London: Faber & Faber, 2012), 256.

146 I can live with doubt: Richard P. Feynman, in Michelle Feynman, ed., Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (New York: Basic Books, 2008), xiii.

146 The true mystery of the world: Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Plain Label Books, 2013), 49.

146 All religions will pass: Vasily Rozanov, in William Desmond, Philosophy and Its Others: Ways of Being and Mind (SUNY Press, 1990), 367.

146 To allow mystery: Barry Lopez, Of Wolves and Men (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), 184.

147 The world strikes human beings: Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), xiii.

147 Enough for me the mystery of the eternity of life: Albert Einstein, The World as I See It (Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1999), 5.

147 I find enough mystery in mathematics: Tom Lehrer, in Warren Allen Smith, Celebrities in Hell (New York: chelCPress, 2002), 72.

147 It is better to ask some of the questions: James Thurber, Fables for Our Time (New York: Harper Perennial, 1990), 28.

147 The Cosmos is all that is: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Ballantine, 2013), 1.

148 The theory of probability: Benoit Mandelbrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (New York: Macmillan, 1977), 201.

148 There is a theory: Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (New York: Del Rey, 1997), front matter.

148 The shamans: Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (New York: Penguin, 1987), 281.

148 Human beings . . . are far too prone: Francis Crick, Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981), 92

148 We carry with us: Sir Thomas Browne, in Alexander Whyte, ed., Sir Thomas Browne, An appreciation: with Some of the Best Passages of the Physician’s Writings (London: O. Anderson & Ferrier, 1898), 18.

148 There is only Man: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (New York: Samuel French, 1959), 39. 149 The good psychic: Ellen DeGeneres, My Point . . . and I Do Have One (New York: Random House, 2011), 132.

149 It is related that Sakyamuni: Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (New York: Penguin, 2010), 152.

149 Witchcraft to the ignorant: Leigh Brackett, “The Sorcerer of Rhiannon,” Astounding magazine, February 1942, 39.

Nature

150 I have made mysterious Nature my religion: Claude Debussy, in Léon Vallas, Claude Debussy: His Life and Works (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933), 225.

150 If we surrendered: Rainer Maria Rilke, “How Surely Gravity’s Law,” Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (New York: Penguin, 2005), 171.

150 When I get sick of what men do: E. B. White, letter to Carrie A. Wilson, May 1, 1950, in Martha White, ed., The Letters of E .B. White: Quotations from America’s Most Companionable of Writers (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2011), 152.

150 There is nothing useless: Michel de Montaigne, in Edith Helen Sichel, Michel de Montaigne (New York: Dutton, 1911), 192.

151 I don’t like using the word environment: W. S. Merwin, in Susan Casey, “Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin on His Connection to Nature,” O Magazine, April 2011, http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Poet- Laureate-WS-Merwin-at-His-Hawaii-Home-Poems-About-Nature/2.

151 There is no reason to be less moved: Robert Sapolsky, “Emperor Has No Clothes Award,” acceptance speech at the Freedom from Religion Foundation convention, (November 23, 2003), excerpt published as “Belief and Biology,” in Freethought Today 20, no. 3 (April 2003).

151 The Amen! of Nature: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “May First,” From Day to Day with Holmes (New York: Barse & Hopkins, 2011), 47.

151 No matter how sophisticated: Ansel Adams, in Bernadette McDonald, Extreme Landscape: The Lure of Mountain Spaces (Washington, DC: National Geographic Adventure Press, 2002), 134.

151 Why in any case, this glorification of man?: Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science (Oxford University Press, 1991), 191.

152 Nature gives no permission of entry: Kenneth L. Patton, The Sense of Life: The Meaning and Mysticism of Natural Religion (Ridgewood, NJ: Meeting House Press, 1974), 130.

152 I think one could say that a certain modesty: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1983, in Allen L. Hammond, ed., A Passion to Know: 20 Profiles in Science (New York: Scribner’s,1984), 6. 152 It was one of those still evenings: P. G. Wodehouse, “Jeeves Takes Charge,” in Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories (Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 1916), 69.

152 The sun, with all those planets revolving: Galileo Galilei, in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), trans. Stillman Drake (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 29.

152 Nature is not our enemy: Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), 274.

153 The scientific equations: Chen Ning Yang, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1957, in Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 478.

153 All knowledge is interesting: Matthew Arnold, “Literature and Science,” Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 96.

153 An age builds up cities: Seneca, Quæstionum Naturalium, book III, 27, in Kate Louise Roberts, Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1910), 798.

153 The planting of trees: Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 12.

153 In Nature there are neither rewards: Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, vol. 13 (Ingersoll, 1913), 273.

153 I do not believe Nature has a heart: Francis Thompson, English poet (1859–1907), “A Renegade Poet and Other Essays” (1910), Francis Peter LeBuffe, in The Hound of Heaven (New York: Macmillan, 1921), 49.

154 I once had a sparrow: Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1912), 244.

154 Laws of Nature are human inventions: Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (New York: William Morrow, 2005), 34.

154 Nature teaches more than she preaches: John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1912), 247.

154 The clearest way: John Muir, “Alaska Fragments, June–July 1890,” in John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979), 313.

154 [For] my church: Frank Lloyd Wright, interviewed by Mike Wallace, September 1, 1957, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/video/2008/wallace/wright_frank_lloyd_t.html.

154 The violets in the mountains: Tennessee Williams, Camino Real (New York: New Directions, 2008), 114.

154 Though I do not believe in the order of things: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002), 224. 155 The temple bell stops: Bashō, in James Miller, Voices from Earth (Trafford Publishing, 2004), 75.

Planet Earth

156 Brute force crushes many plants: D. H. Lawrence, Etruscan Places: Travels Through Forgotten Italy (London and New York: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2011), 57.

156 I left Earth three times: Wally Schirra, in Steven J. Dick, NASA 50th Anniversary Proceedings: NASA’s First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives (US Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2010), 507.

156 Somehow the wondrous promise: , physicist and pioneer of , in James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Penguin, 1987), 187.

157 How vast those Orbs: Christiaan Huygens, The Celestial Worlds Discover’d, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets (London: James Knapton, 1722), 142.

157 We are living on this planet: Terri Swearingen, community activist who successfully stopped the siting of toxic waste incinerators near schools, recipient of the 1997 Goldman Environmental Prize, quoted in Nick Dallas, Green Business Basics: 24 Lessons for Meeting the Challenge of Global Warming (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2008), 7.

157 Sitting quietly: Zen saying, in The Little Zen Companion (New York: Workman Publishing, 1994), 210.

157 The goal of life: Zeno of Citium, in DK Publishing, The Philosophy Book (New York: Penguin, 2011), 6.

157 There is not a sprig of grass: Thomas Jefferson, letter to Martha Jefferson Randolph, December 23, 1790, in Jerry Holmes, ed., Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), 120.

157 Some people are always grumbling: Alphonse Karr (1808–1890), French author and critic, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 121.

158 How inappropriate to call this planet Earth: Arthur C. Clarke, quoted in “Unveiling Planet Ocean,” NASA Science News, March 14, 2002, http://science1.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at- nasa/2002/14mar_grace_oceans/.

158 I would vote for Bach: Lewis Thomas, in Donald Goldsmith, The Quest for Extraterrestrial Life: A Book of Readings (Sausalito, CA: University Science Books, 1980), 279.

158 The most beautiful: Wallace Stevens, Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose (New York: Random House, 2011), 184.

158 To consider the Earth: Metrodorus of Chios (fourth century BCE), in Dana Berry, Smithsonian Intimate Guide to the Cosmos (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 56. 158 There is something in living close: Laura Ingalls Wilder, “On Life as a Pioneer Woman,” in Stephen W. Hines, ed., Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder, vol. 2, On Life As a Pioneer Woman (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2006), 33.

158 The Earth is a very small stage: Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (New York: Ballantine, 1997), 7.

159 It isn’t necessary that you leave home: Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms, trans. Michael Hofmann (New York: Schocken Books, 2006), 108.

159 The notion of saving the planet: Lynn Margulis, in Mario R. Reda, Toward a New Sociology: A Collection of Readings (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997), 304.

159 The world isn’t waiting: Walter Mosley, in Walter Mosley and Clyde Taylor, Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), 29.

159 If you could see the earth illuminated: Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), trans. Stillman Drake (1953), http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/dialogue.html.

160 In our world, complexity flourishes: James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (New York: Penguin, 1987), 308.

160 The human mind delights in finding pattern: Stephen Jay Gould, “The Rule of Five,” The Flamingo’s Smile: Reflections in Natural History (New York: W. W. Norton, 1985), 13.

160 You say the real, the world as it is: John Cage, in Christopher Shultis, Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition (Lebanon, NH: University Press of , 2013), 95.

160 One assumes that the world simply is: Russell Hoban, Pilgermann (New York: Pocket Books, 1984), 99.

160 The motto I have penned on my knuckles: Caitlin Moran, Moranthology (New York: Harper Perennial, 2012), 14.

161 In the fight between you: Franz Kafka, The Blue Octavo Notebooks (Exact Change, 1991), 29.

161 The world—whatever we might think: Wisława Szymborska, “The Poet and the World,” Nobel Lecture, December 7, 1996, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1996/szymborska-lecture.html.

161 Is not the whole world: Quentin Crisp, The Naked Civil Servant (New York: Penguin, 1997), 77.

162 The world is like a ride in an amusement park: Bill Hicks, “It’s Just a Ride,” Dominion Theatre, London (1993), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7bcxBf2vK4.

162 A man sets out to draw the world: Jorge Luis Borges, Afterword, “The Maker,” Collected Fictions (New York: Penguin, 1999), 327–328. Relationships

163 It is in the shelter of each other: Irish proverb, in Christine G. T. Ho and James Loucky, Humane Migration: Establishing Legitimacy and Rights for Displaced People (Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press, 2012), 182.

163 There are things so deeply personal: Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez (New York: Random House, 1982), 200.

163 Happiness does not await us all: Anton Chekhov, letter to K. S. Barantsevich, March 3, 1888, in Stephen Karam, Sons of the Prophet, epigraph (New York: Dramatists’ Play Service, 2012), 11.

163 Of all the means which are procured: Epicurus, Principal Doctrines, trans. Robert Drew Hicks (1910), http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/e/epicurus/doctrines/.

163 Blood may be thicker than water: Stephen Jay Gould quoted in Richard Milner, “This View of Stephen Jay Gould” Natural History 108 (November 1999): 56–57.

164 When you begin to see: Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life (New York: Bantam, 1992), 120.

164 No self is of itself alone: Erwin Schrodinger, “Writings of July 1918,” in Walter Moore, A Life of Erwin Schrödinger (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 113.

164 You must have four children: Winston Churchill, letter to Clementine Churchill (nd), National Churchill Museum (US), https://www.nationalchurchillmuseum.org/winston-churchill-biography.html.

164 One must say Yes to life: James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time (1963), quoted in Maria Gitin, This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014), 208.

165 I think faith in each other: Stephen Fry, Bookclub, BBC Radio 4, March 6, 2005, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00f8l3b.

165 If you have to ask someone to change: Sloane Crosley, How Did You Get This Number? (New York: Riverhead, 2011), 228.

165 They create you: Ricky Gervais, “Does God Exist? Ricky Gervais Takes Your Questions,” The Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2010, http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/12/22/does-god-exist-ricky- gervais-takes-your-questions/.

165 We’re born alone, we live alone: Orson Welles, lines added by Welles to the Henry Jaglom script, Someone to Love (film), 1987, written and directed by Henry Jaglom, Jagfilm.

165 If you want to know who your friends are: Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man (San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1969), 112.

165 Every beetle: Moroccan proverb, http://moroccanfood.about.com/od/moroccanfood101/a/Moroccan_proverbs.htm. 166 We are alone, absolutely alone: Maurice Maeterlinck, My Dog (London: G. Allen, 1906), 40–41.

166 If you want your children to turn out well: Esther Selsdon, English novelist and travel writer, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations, (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 243.

166 The true teacher defends his pupils: Amos Bronson Alcott, Orphic Sayings, “The Teacher” (1840), in Leo Deuel, The Teacher’s Treasure Chest (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1956), 22.

166 A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Friendship,” Essays and Poems (New York: Barnes and Noble Classics, 204), 178.

166 Each friend represents a world in us: Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. 2, 1934–1939 (The Swallow Press, 1967), 193.

166 Before you eat or drink anything: Epicurus, quoted in Alain de Botton, Bold Type (New York: Random House, 2000), https://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0500/debotton/advice.html.

166 When you die, you are grieved: David Eagleman, “Ineffable,” Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives (New York: Vintage, 2009), 76.

167 You can learn many things from children: Franklin P. Jones, American journalist (1908–1980), in Tim Phillips, Bertrand Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness: A Modern-Day Interpretation of a Self-Help Classic (Oxford: Infinite Ideas, 2010), 86.

167 Not I but the world says it: Heraclitus, Fragment 50 (ca. fifth century BCE), in Joe McCoy, Early Greek Philosophy (Washington, DC: CUA Press, 2013), 43.

167 Some claim evolution is just a theory: Neil deGrasse Tyson, “Some of the Things that Molecules Do,” episode 2, Cosmos, TV series, directed by Brannan Braga, Cosmos Productions, Fox/National Geographic, March 2014.

167 If we were to wipe out insects alone: E. O. Wilson, “My Wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life,” TED Talk, March 2007, www.ted.com/talks/e_o_wilson_on_saving_life_on_earth.

168 Our emancipation from the animal kingdom: Ralph Steadman, Gonzo: The Art (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1998), 38.

168 The eyes of fear: Bill Hicks, “It’s Just a Ride,” Dominion Theatre, London (1993), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7bcxBf2vK4.

168 Mother’s love is bliss: Erich Fromm, “The Theory of Love,” The Art of Loving (New York: Harper & Row, 1956), http://archive.org/stream/TheArtOfLoving/43799393-The-Art-of-Loving-Erich- Fromm_djvu.txt.

168 Your body is just one in a mass of cuddly humanity: Abbie Hoffman, Steal This Book (New York: DaCapo, 2005), xxiii. 168 Everything is both simpler: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Andre Comte-Sponville, A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life (New York: Macmillan, 2002), 150.

168 I think that everything in life comes down to: David Wilson, in Tavi Gevinson, “The World Is Bound with Secret Knots,” Rookie, November 22, 2012, http://rookiemag.com/2012/11/the-world-is- bound-with-secret-knots/3/.

169 When we speak about nature: Henri Matisse, “Interview with Guillaume Apollinaire,” Matisse on Art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 30.

169 The air in a man’s lungs: Jacob Bronowski, The Reader’s Digest (1964), vol. 84; also quoted in Glen A. Love, Structure and Plan (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974), 154.

169 He that will have his son: John Locke, The Educational Writings of John Locke (London: E. Arnold, 1912), 55.

169 Let there be such oneness: Anonymous.

169 In the stillness, in the great peace: Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941), in The Henry Miller Reader (New York: New Directions, 1969), 58.

170 We’d like him to know where he comes from: Daniel Handler, aka Lemony Snicket, in Marvin Olasky, “Autumn of a Book Lover’s Contentment,” World Magazine, October 7, 2006, http://www.worldmag.com/2006/10/autumn_of_a_book_lover_s_contentment/page3.

170 To feel the love of people: Pablo Neruda, “Childhood and Poetry,” in Lewis Hyde, The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World (New York: Random House, 2009), 367–368.

Science

171 I love science: Robert Sapolsky, Professor of Biology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery at Stanford University, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping—Now Revised and Updated (New York: Macmillan, 2004), xii.

171 Science kills credulity: John Burroughs, Accepting the Universe (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1920), 108.

171 That’s the good thing about science: Neil deGrasse Tyson, on The Colbert Report, March 10, 2014, http://www.salon.com/2014/03/11/neil_degrasse_tyson_science_is_true_whether_or_not_you_believe_in _it/.

172 We’ve got to get past this idea: Michael Shermer, “The Joys of Life Without God,” Salon, August 23, 2006, http://www.salon.com/2006/08/23/shermer_2/.

172 We can no longer argue: Charles Darwin, “Religion,” The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, vol. 1 (New York: D. Appleton, 1901), 279. 172 If you want to save your child from polio: Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Ballantine, 1996), 30.

172 What has philosophy got to do: Galileo Galilei, as “Matteo,” Concerning the New Star (1606), http://www.columbia.edu/cu/tat/core/galileo.htm.

172 Knowledge—it excites prejudices: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916), 379.

172 The miracle of the appropriateness: , Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1963, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,” Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, February 1960, http://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.html.

173 Science cannot be stopped: Linus Pauling, lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future,” October 1947, in George A. Baitsell, ed., Science in Progress, Sixth Series (1949), 100–121.

173 If scientists don’t play God: James D. Watson, in Tim Adams, “The Stuff of Life,” The Observer (UK), April 5, 2003, http://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/apr/06/highereducation.uk1.

173 My ambition is to live to see: Leon Lederman, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1988, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993), 21.

173 Whoever wins to a great scientific truth: Frederic Wood-Jones, Medical Journal of Australia, August 29, 1931, in Alan L. Mackay, A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (London: CRC Press, 1991), 267.

173 All is number: Pythagoras, in Peter Michael Higgins, Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography (London: Springer, 2008), 1.

173 All science is either physics: Ernest Rutherford, in J. B. Birks, ed., Rutherford at Manchester (1963), quoted in Wolfram Research, http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Rutherford.html.

173 You have only to wish it: Albert Szent-Györgyi, in Ralph W. Moss, Free Radical: Albert Szent- Györgyi and the Battle over Vitamin C (New York: Paragon House, 1988), 301.

174 The science of life: Claude Bernard, Introduction à l’Étude de la Médecine Expérimentale (1865), in Dr. Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams, The Laboratory Revolution in Medicine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 295.

174 There is no great invention: J. B. S. Haldane, “Daedalus; or, Science and the Future,” Cambridge, UK, February 4, 1923, http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Daedalus.html.

174 If [science] tends to thicken the crust: Samuel Butler, “Science,” The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (A. C. Fifield, 1912), http://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/etext04/nbsb10h.htm. 174 It is often stated that of all the theories: Michio Kaku, Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 262.

174 [Darwin’s theory of evolution: Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt (New York: Ballantine, 2003), 99.

175 There is no democracy in physics: Luis , American Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1968 (1911–1988), in Daniel S. Greenberg, The Politics of Pure Science (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 43.

175 Science is imagination: Gerald Edelman, Nobel Prize winner for Medicine, 1972, Nobel Banquet Speech, December 10, 1972, http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1972/edelman- speech.html.

175 In most sciences one generation: Hermann Hankel, German mathematician (1839–1873), in William Dunham, Journey Through : The Great Theorems of Mathematics (New York: Penguin, 1991), vii.

175 If people do not believe that mathematics is simple: , Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and polymath (1903–1957), in Gunter M. Ziegler, Do I Count? Stories from Mathematics (Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2013), 189.

175 One cannot escape the feeling: Heinrich Hertz, German physicist (1857–1894), in H. Triebel, Analysis and Mathematical Physics (Springer, 1986), 97.

176 Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces: Dave Barry, in Arthur M. Wiggins, The Joy of Physics (New York: Prometheus Books, 2011), 229.

176 Clarke’s First Law: Arthur C. Clarke, “Hazards of Prophecy: The Failure of Imagination,” in Profiles of the Future (1962), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#On_Clarke.27s_Laws.

176 It is a mathematical fact: Thomas Carlyle, The Best Known Works of Thomas Carlyle: Including Sartor Resartus, Heroes and Hero Worship and Characteristics (Bethesda, MD: Wildside Press, 2010), 126.

176 Science is a differential equation: Alan Turing, quoted in Jim Holt, Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story (New York: Liveright, 2013), 156.

176 Human beings are so destructive: Michael Crichton, The Lost World (New York: Random House, 2012), 415.

177 There is no better: Michael Faraday, English scientist and pioneer in the field of electromagnetism (1791–1867), The Chemical History of a Candle: With an Introduction by Frank A. J. L. James (Oxford University Press, 2011), 1.

177 Folks, it’s time to evolve: Bill Hicks, “Filling Up the Hump” (1983), http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Hicks. 177 One person out of one: Warren Miller, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, December 30, 2008, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/warren-miller-quotes-0109.

177 It is best to read the weather forecast: Mark Twain, in R. Kent Rasmussen, The Quotable Mark Twain (New York: McGraw Hill Professional, 1998), 295.

177 But evolution is only a theory!: Tim Minchin, standup routine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9uIMR8yCPg.

178 Religions die: Oscar Wilde, “Phrases and Philosophies,” The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What Never Dies (New York: Pearson Publishing Company, 1909), 141.

178 Stay in college: Ali, “Muhammad Ali in His Own Words,” The Telegraph (UK), August 25, 2009. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/boxing/6086338/Muhammad-Ali-in-his-own- words.html.

178 Assessing existence: Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the of Reality (New York: Random House, 2007), 5.

178 Nothing exists except atoms: Democritus of Abdera, in Leon Lederman, The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1993), 1.

178 Still, if history and science have taught us anything: E. O. Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (New York: Random House, 1998), 286.

179 Of God, the Devil: Niall Shanks, God, the Devil and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 3.

179 There is a philosophy that says: Leonard Susskind, one of the founders of string theory and , Professor of at Stanford University and Director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics, The Black Hole War: My Battle with Stephen Hawking to Make the World Safe for Quantum Mechanics (New York: Little, Brown, 2008), eBook.

179 The notion of order in the universe: Oliver Sacks, in Dick Staub, “Oliver Sacks,” Today, June 1, 2002, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/juneweb-only/6-24-21.0.html.

179 We are not evolution’s ultimate product: Danny Hillis, “The Big Picture,” Wired, January 1998, http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive//6.01/hillis.html?person=danny_hillis&topic_set=wiredpeople.

180 When I look out of my window: Susan Blackmore, “Evolution by Means of Natural Selection,” in John Brockman, ed., This Explains Everything (New York: Harper Perennial, 2013), 2.

180 From now on, we live in a world: Jim Lovell, International Space Hall of Fame, http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=65.

Sex

181 It’s something big and cosmic: Kathleen Winsor, American novelist (1919–2003), quoted in “Sunbeams,” The Sun, June 2002, issue 318, http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/318/sunbeams. 181 If your sexual fantasies: Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader (New York: Vintage, 2004), 149.

181 Moral rules: Bertrand Russell, “What I Believe” (1925), in The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (New York: Routledge, 2009), 357.

181 Sex cannot be understood: Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (New York: Vintage, 1991), 5.

182 In this life, you can choose: P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves (Rockville, MD: Arc Manor, 2008), 12.

182 The hen is only the egg’s: Samuel Butler, Life and Habit (1877), http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm.

182 [Man] has imagined a heaven: Mark Twain, Letter II, Letters from the Earth (1909–1910), http://www.classicreader.com/book/1930/3/.

182 In America an obsession: Marlene Dietrich, Marlene Dietrich’s ABC (New York: Open Road Media: 1962; 2012), 169.

Society

183 Whenever you find yourself: Mark Twain, Notebooks, in The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain (Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 2013), 153.

183 The reason I don’t worry: Jon Stewart, Rolling Stone, November 2007.

183 Religion & Govt. will both exist: James Madison, letter to Edward Livingston, July 10, 1822, Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, vol. 3 (J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1865), 275.

183 Encourage free schools: Ulysses S. Grant, speech to the Army of the Tennessee, September 29, 1875, in William Conant Church, Ulysses S. Grant (Fred Defau & Company, 1897), 434.

184 Everybody thinks that this civilization: Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), in Bruce Kellner, A Gertrude Stein Sampler (Greenwood Press, 1988), 295.

184 Those who profess to favor freedom: Frederick Douglass, “An Address on West India Emancipation,” August 3, 1857, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings (Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2000), 367.

184 The survival of democracy: Aldous Huxley, “The Arts of Selling,” Preface to Brave New World Revisited (1958), (London: Chatto and Windus, 1961), 217.

184 People do come along and lead: Tommy Lee Jones, “What I’ve Learned,” Esquire, August 12, 2012, http://www.esquire.com/features/what-ive-learned/tommy-lee-jones-quotes-0912.

184 And if the word integration: James Baldwin, letter to his nephew, 1963, The Fire Next Time (New York: Vintage, 1992), 9–10. 185 Much of what is today called “social criticism”: Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (New York: Penguin, 2002), 237.

185 Those who can make you believe absurdities: Voltaire, Questions sur les miracles (1765), in Simon Blackburn, Truth: A Guide (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 13. Rosemarie Jarski, Words from the Wise: Over 6,000 of the Smartest Things Ever Said (Google eBook), http://books.google.com/books/about/Words_from_the_Wise.html?id=MlTjTTfIZiQC.

185 Peace on earth: Joseph Heller, Picture This (1988), quoted in Adam J. Sorkin, Conversations with Joseph Heller (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993), 287.

185 Democracy is the recurrent suspicion: E. B. White, “Democracy,” The Wild Flag (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1946).

186 Live and let live: Cole Porter, “Live and Let Live” (1953), in The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter (New York: DaCapo, 1983), 424.

186 Insanity in individuals: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil (T. N. Foulis, 1914), 98.

186 All the misfortunes of mankind: Molière, The Citizen Who Apes the Nobleman (Paris: Chez Barrie frères, 1671), 20.

186 Civilization is a movement: Arnold Toynbee, Readers Digest, 1958, quoted in David D. Peck, Voyage Without a Harbor: The History of Western Civilization in a Nutshell (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2014), epigraph.

186 A community is a butcher: Fran Lebowitz, interviewed by Susannah McNeely, Ruminator, August/September 2005, http://mnartists.org/work.do?rid=201381.

187 The only sane policy: Linus Pauling, Nobel Lecture for the Nobel Peace Prize 1962, December 11, 1963, in Linus Pauling, Clifford Mead, and Thomas Hager, Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press, 2001), 218.

187 A country is only good: Martha Gellhorn, letter to Eleanor Roosevelt, October 17, 1941, in Caroline Moorehead, Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn (New York: Macmillan, 2007), 121.

187 If a bullet should enter my brain: Harvey Milk, in Randy Shilts, The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1982), 372.

187 What is not good for the beehive: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (167 CE), http://www.egs.edu/library/marcus-aurelius/quotes/.

187 I don’t know what weapons: Albert Einstein, interviewed by Alfred Werner, Liberal 16 (April–May 1949): 12. Einstein Archive 30-1104, in Alice Calaprice The New Quotable Einstein (2005), 173. See: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/World_War_III.

Success and Failure 188 Nothing you can’t spell: Will Rogers, The Official Website of Will Rogers, Estate of Will Rogers, http://www.cmgww.com/historic/rogers/about/truth_wisdom_stupidity.html.

188 It is impossible to live without failing: J. K. Rowling, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” June 5, 2008, http://harvardmagazine.com/2008/06/the-fringe-benefits- failure-the-importance-imagination.

188 Jump off the cliff: Ray Bradbury, in Charles Solomon, “ ‘Future Style’ Slickly Peers Wrong Way,” Times, October 21, 1986, http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/17/cliff-wings/#note-3999-4.

188 The difficult is what takes a little time: Fridtjof Nansen, Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1922, in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 3.

188 A man with a new idea: Mark Twain, “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar,” Following the Equator (Sydney: Harper & Bros., 1899), 311.

188 In writing, I’ve always had a lot of confidence: Alice Munro, “The Art of Fiction” interview with Jeanne McCulloch and Mona Simpson, 1994, in Philip Gourevitch, ed., The Paris Review Interviews, vol. II (New York: Picador, 2007), 424.

189 We’ve been around long enough: Matt Stone, cocreator with Trey Parker of South Park, Lifehack, http://quotes.lifehack.org/search/?page=15941&q=.

189 Walls turned sideways: Angela Davis, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 252.

189 We are born what we are: Kenneth L. Patton, The Sense of Life: The Meaning and Mysticism of Natural Religion (Ridgewood, NJ: Meeting House Press, 1974), 10.

189 It’s only those who do nothing: Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands (New York: Doubleday, 1917), 154.

189 I do want to get rich: Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), quoted in Lyle Larsen, Stein and Hemingway: The Story of a Turbulent Friendship (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 103.

189 Life is not always a matter: Jack London, quoted in “They Came to Write in Hawai’i,” by Joseph Theroux, in Spirit of Aloha, March/April 2007.

189 Bacteria represent the world’s greatest success story: Stephen Jay Gould, “An Earful of Jaw,” Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010), 98.

190 Please know that I am aware of the hazards: Amelia Earhart, letter to her husband G. P. Putnam just before her final flight, in Lori Van Pelt, Amelia Earhart: The Sky’s No Limit (New York: Macmillan, 2006), 205.

190 It is not worthy of a human being: Alva Myrdal, advocate for nuclear disarmament and Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1982, in Yvonne Hirdman, Alva Myrdal: The Passionate Mind (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 338. 190 I don’t like people who have never fallen: Boris Pasternak, in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 3.

190 Remembering that you are going to die: Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, June 12, 2005. http://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/june15/jobs-061505.html.

190 It is difficult to say what is impossible: Robert Goddard (1882-1945), From address to high school graduates, “On Taking Things for Granted,” June 1904, in Joseph A. Angelo, Space Technology (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing, 2003), 67.

190 Ever tried. Ever failed: Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho, in Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, Worstward Ho: Three Novels (New York: Grove Press, 1995), 89.

191 Not failure, but low aim: Bruce Lee, in John Little, ed., Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living (Boston: Tuttle Publishing, 2002), 121.

191 I cannot afford: Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz, attributed. See: Hunter Lewis, ed., Alternative Values: The Perennial Debate About Wealth, Power, Fame, Praise, Glory, and Physical Pleasure (Mount Jackson, VA: Axios Press: 2005), 1.

191 It’s all about money: Bill Hicks, in American: The Bill Hicks Story, directed by Matt Harlock and Paul Thomas, American the Movie films, 2010.

191 Money frees you: Groucho Marx, in Rosemarie Jarski, Funniest Thing You Never Said 2 (New York: Random House, 2010), 51.

Time

192 This web of time: Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Ficciones (New York: Grove Press, 1962), 100.

192 He who owns a veteran bur oak: Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 60.

192 Just because you’re not a drummer: Thelonious Monk, “T. Monk’s Advice” (1960), Lists of Note, http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/thelonious-monks-advice.html.

192 Only our concept of time makes it possible: Franz Kafka, The Great Wall of and Other Pieces (London: M. Secker, 1933), 39.

192 While we are postponing: Seneca, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Moral Epistles to Lucilius), vol. IV, epistles 1–65 (Aegitus, 2014), 1.

193 Truth is the daughter of time: Francis Bacon, in B. H. G. Wormald, Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561–1626 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 38.

193 The future will one day be the present: W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up (New York: Doubleday, Doran, & Co., 1938), 51. 193 Music is the best means: Igor Stravinsky, in Robert Craft, Stravinsky: Chronicle of a Friendship (New York: Knopf, 1962), 6.

193 He sees eternity: Walt Whitman, Preface to Leaves of Grass (1855) The Walt Whitman Archive, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1855/whole.html, v.

193 From time to time, as we all know: G. K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News, September 24, 1927, in Kevin Belmonte, ed., The Quotable Chesterton (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2011), 241.

193 Years are only garments: Dorothy Parker, “The Middle or Blue Period,” December 1944, in Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker (New York: Viking Press, 1973), 595.

194 It is difficult beyond description: Thomas Paine, The Theological Works of Thomas Paine: To Which Are Added the Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar (Boston: Printed for the Advocates of Common Sense, 1834), 44.

194 Everyone comes from an old family: Tilda Swinton, interviewed by Robert Siegel, All Things Considered, NPR, January 17, 2008, http://www.wbur.org/npr/18187774.

194 It doesn’t seem, actually, when we look at the way people behave: Stephen Cave, Immortality: The Quest to Live Forever and How It Drives Human Civilization (New York: Crown, 2012), cited in Maria Popova, “The Philosophy of Immortality,” Brainpickings, May 24, 2013, http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/05/24/the-philosophy-of-immortality/.

194 Time is a great teacher: Hector Berlioz, quoted in Paul Davies, About Time: Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), 214.

194 Time has two aspects. One is the arrow: Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003), 223.

195 There are some things which cannot be learned quickly: Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), 153.

195 Half our life is spent trying to find something to do: Will Rogers, The New York Times, December 23, 1929, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Will_Rogers.

195 I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville: Wilbur Wright, “Speech to the Ero Club de France,” 1908, in Eugene Morlock Emme and William M. Bland, The History of Rocket Technology: Essays on Research, Development, and Utility (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1964), 177.

195 There is no rest of life: John Cage, in Kay Larson, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (New York: Penguin, 2012), 372.

196 I have no vision of the future: Morrissey, in Amy Rose, “This Charming Man: An Interview with Morrissey,” Rookie, February 26, 2013, http://rookiemag.com/2013/02/this-charming-man-an-interview- with-morrissey/.

196 With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives: Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams (New York: Vintage, 2004), 119–120. 196 There is only one place: Russell Hoban, The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012), 43.

Truth

197 Precisely because of human fallibility: Carl Sagan, “Carl Sagan on Alien Abduction,” NOVA, February 27, 1996, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/sagan-alien-abduction.html.

197 Plato is my friend: Aristotle (384–322 BCE), in James Gleick, Isaac Newton (New York: Vintage, 2004), Kindle eBook, location 420.

197 Only the madman is absolutely sure: Robert Anton Wilson, in Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan (New York: Random House, 2010), 176.

197 If history reveals any categorical truth: Sam Harris, : Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (New York: W. W. Norton, 2005), 26.

198 I don’t think in terms of “truth is beauty”: Lisa Randall, “Lisa Randall’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Smithsonian Magazine, June 2013, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lisa-randalls-guide- to-the-galaxy-71799164/?no-ist.

198 The first and last thing which is required of genius: Goethe, in Tryon Edwards, A Dictionary of Thoughts, (Detroit: F. B. Dickerson Company, 1908), 591.

198 Nature is a source of truth: Leonardo da Vinci, in Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself (New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1985), 350.

198 Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones: Benoit Mandelbrot, in Michael Frame and Benoit Mandelbrot, Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 150.

198 Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch: Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895), 109.

198 What can be asserted without proof: Christopher Hitchens, “Less than Miraculous,” Free Inquiry, February/March 2004, in Windsor Mann, The Quotable Hitchens (New York: DaCapo, 2011), 101.

199 An open society such as ours: George Soros, Speech at the National Press Club (2004), http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97feb/capital/capital.htm.

199 Wiener’s Law of Libraries: Norbert Wiener, in Pesi R. Masani, Vita Mathematica (1989), in M. B. Ahmed Khan, Understanding Management Through Cases (New Delhi: Discovery Publishing House, 1996), 2.

199 A person obsessed with ultimate truth: Robert B. Laughlin, American Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1998, A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 206. 199 See now the power of truth: Galileo Galilei, in Stephen W. Hawking, On the Shoulders of Giants: The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy (Philadelphia: Running Press, 203), 523.

199 The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement: Niels Bohr, in Laszlo Mero, Moral Calculations: Game Theory, Logic, and Human Frailty (New York: Springer, 1998), 12.

199 Men occasionally stumble over the truth: Winston Churchill, in Carlos Gallego, Chicana/o Subjectivity and the Politics of Identity: Between Recognition and Revolution (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 30.

199 It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel: Anatole France, in David Brianza, Decision and Dissent (Bloomington: iUniverse, 2012), 794.

200 With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth: Gao Xingjian, Chinese Nobel Prize winner for Literature, 2000, in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2009), 15.

200 Lying is done with words and also with silence: Adrienne Rich, in Cheri Colby Langdell, Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004), 148.

200 Truth is the daughter of search: Arab proverb in John Adair, The Leadership of Muhammad (London: Kogan Page Publishers, 2010), 95.

200 Slander is played on a tin horn: Josh Billings, Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings (New York: Carleton, 1871), 38. Originally: Slander iz played on a tin horn, while truth steals forth like the dieing song ov a lute.

200 Nothing is too wonderful to be true: Michael Faraday, in , Nothing Is Too Wonderful to Be True (New York: Springer, 1995), ix.

200 Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions: Alan Watts, in Dan Nimmo, Communication Yearbook 4 (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1980), 497.

200 You possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck: El-Ghazali, in Idries Shah, The Way of the Sufi (New York: Penguin, 1991), 63.

200 The greatest and noblest pleasure which men can have: Frederick the Great, in Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Gaither’s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (New York: Springer, 2012), 2565.

201 In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear: Richard P. Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman (New York: Basic Books, 2008), xvi.

201 Science and philosophy cast a net of words into the sea of being: George Santayana, “The Unknowable,” The Herbert Spencer Lecture, Oxford, England, October 24, 1923, http://archive.org/stream/unknowableherber00santuoft/unknowableherber00santuoft_djvu.txt. 201 The obscure we see eventually: Edward R. Murrow, attributed. See: “Edward R. Murrow,” Wikiquote.org: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_R._Murrow.

201 The language of truth is simple: Euripides, in Randall Dickau, The Road to Begin Your Life (Bloomington: Author House, 2007), 246.

201 Since we have explored the maze so long without result: Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (Manchester, UK: Co-operative Publication Society, 1904), 72.

202 There are two kinds of light: James Thurber, Lanterns and Lances (New York: Time-Life Books, 1960), 146.

202 Nothing in fine print is ever good news: Andy Rooney in R. A. Wise, Wise Quotes of Wisdom: A Lifetime Collection of Quotes, Sayings, Philosophies, Viewpoints and Thoughts (Bloomington: Author House, 2011), 161.

202 Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things: Plato, in Laws: Index to the Writings of Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett (Gloucestershire, UK: Clarendon Press, 1892), 199.

202 Speak the truth, but leave immediately after: Slovenian proverb in Richard Alan Krieger, Civilization’s Quotations: Life’s Ideal (New York: Algora Publishing, 2002), 81.

202 History is a construct consequent upon the questions: E. H. Carr, English historian (1892–1982), in Liz Wells, Photography: A Critical Introduction (Florence, KY: Psychology Press, 2004), 11.

202 It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world: Bill Vaughan, American journalist (1915–1977), in Kristen Swenson, Bible Babel: Making Sense of the Most Talked About Book of All Time (Nashville, TN: HarperCollins, 2010), 31.

202 There are no facts, only interpretations: Friedrich Nietzsche, in Arthur C. Danto, Nietzsche as Philosopher (New York: Macmillan, 1965), 76.

202 There’s nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact: Sir , The Boscombe Valley Mystery, in Sherlock: The Adventures of (Google eBook) (New York: Random House, 2011), 82.

203 One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore: André Gide, The Counterfeiters (New York: Random House, 2012), 353.

203 No pressure: Anonymous. Sometimes attributed (without citation information) to Thomas Carlyle.

203 All human beings, by nature, desire to know: Aristotle, in William McNeill, The Glance of the Eye: Heidegger, Aristotle, and the Ends of Theory (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999), 1.

203 If a man will begin in certainties, he shall end in doubts: Francis Bacon in B. H. G. Wormald, Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561–1626, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 356. 203 If I look over my life: Julia Sweeney, “Letting Go of God,” http://www.american- buddha.com/lit.letgoofgodsweeney.5.htm.

203 I don’t know what I may seem to the world: Isaac Newton, in James Gleick, Isaac Newton (New York: Vintage, 2003), Kindle eBook, location 130.

203 What is to give light: Viktor Frankl, attributed. Motto of The Sun magazine: http://thesunmagazine.org/about/about_the_sun.

204 There is no good in arguing with the inevitable: James Russell Lowell, American poet (1819– 1891), in Susan Ratcliffe, Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 25.

204 You can always try to solve: Edward Henry Lorenz (1882–1956), American mathematician, meteorologist, and one of the founders of chaos theory, notably his theory of the Butterfly Effect, advice given to his son Edward Norton Lorenz (1917–2008), quoted in James Gleick, Chaos (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), 12.

204 Up to the Twentieth Century, reality was everything humans could touch: R. Buckminster Fuller, in William Tucker, Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2008), 245.

204 The real tension is not between matter and spirit: Terence McKenna, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 346.

204 Science shows us that the visible world: Heinz R. Pagels, The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 2012), 348.

204 Reality is that which: Philip K. Dick, “How to Build A Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later” (1978), in Umberto Rossi, A Reading of Twenty Ontologically Uncertain Novels (Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011), 11.

205 You and I do not see things as they are: Herb Cohen, American business executive, “You Can Negotiate Anything!,” Sterling Speakers, http://www.sterlingspeakers.com/cohen.htm.

205 There is no absolute up or down: Giordano Bruno, De la Causa, Principio, et Uno (On Cause, Principle, and Unity), 1584, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno.

205 You can observe a lot by watching: Yogi Berra, in Debra A. Estock, Baseball Hall of Famers: Yogi Bera (New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2003), 93.

205 Nothing is more real than nothing: Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies (1951), in Anthony Uhlmann, Samuel Beckett in Context (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 308.

205 An actually existent fly: Ralph Waldo Emerson in Charles Wells Moulton, The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1875–1890 (Buffalo, NY: Moulton Publishing Company, 1904), 348. 205 Since everything is but an apparition: Longchenpa (fourteenth century CE), in Irini Rockwell, Natural Brilliance: A Buddhist System for Uncovering Your Strengths and Letting Them Shine (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2012), 70.

205 Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., in H. L. Pohlman, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes & Utilitarian Jurisprudence (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1984), 129.

206 Everyone is entitled: Daniel Patrick Moynihan, quoted in George F. Will, “The Wisdom of Pat Moynihan,” The Washington Post, October 3, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2010/10/01/AR2010100105262.html.

206 Man is impelled to invent theories: Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts (London: Chatto & Windus, 1933), 270.

206 Contrary to popular opinion: Benoit B. Mandelbrot, in Benoit Mandelbrot and Richard L. Hudson, The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence (New York: Basic Books, 2014), 125.

206 Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds: Leo Tolstoy, “Talks with Tolstoy,” in Aylmer Maude, Tolstoy and His Problems (London: Grant Richards, 1901), 64.

206 The voice of the intellect is a soft one: Sigmund Freud, in Helen Walker Puner, Sigmund Freud: His Life and Mind (Piscataway, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1992), 223.

207 Reason is to the estimation: , in T. Joyner Drolsum, Unholy Writ (Bloomington: AuthorHouse, 2011), 577.

207 Fortune but seldom interferes with the wise person: Epicurus, in Andrew Calder, The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought Down to Earth (Genève: Librairie Droz, 2011), 151.

207 The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising: Bertrand Russell, in A. J. Ayer, Bertrand Russell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988), 35.

207 That hardest thing to understand: Albert Einstein, in Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century (New York: Random House, 2011), 338.

207 It is better to hide ignorance: Heraclitus (ca. 535–475 BCE), Fragment 108, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Heraclitus.

207 Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive: Robert Frost, letter to Louis Untermeyer, July 8, 1950, in The Letters of Robert Frost, vol. 1 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014), 325.

207 If forty million people say a foolish thing: W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook (New York: Vintage, 2009), 76.

208 Stupidity does not give way to science: Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel (New York: Harper Perennial, 2003),162. 208 Look into the eyes of a chicken and you will see real stupidity: Werner Herzog, in Paul Cronin, Werner Herzog, Herzog on Herzog (London: Faber & Faber, 2003), 99.

The Universe

209 Everything existing in the universe: Democritus, in David Orrell, Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), 40.

209 This universe, which is the same for all: Heraclitus, Fragment 20, in Vincent L. Wimbush, Asceticism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002), 21.

209 The universe is remarkable: Janna Levin, interviewed by Krista Tippett, “Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth,” On Being, April 2, 2014, http://www.onbeing.org/program/janna-levin-—-mathematics- purpose-and-truth/transcript/6243#main_content.

209 And you know the reason I really love the stars: Laurie Anderson, “Another Day in America” (2012), http://www.songlyrics.com/laurie-anderson/another-day-in-america-lyrics/.

210 Praised be the fathomless universe: Walt Whitman, Memories of Lincoln: “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” The Works of Walt Whitman (Ware, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 1995), 306.

210 As a working hypothesis: Freeman J. Dyson, Preface, Infinite in All Directions (New York: Harper Perennial, 2004), vii.

210 It is my supposition that the Universe: J. B. S. Haldane, British-born naturalized Indian biologist and polymath, Possible Worlds (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1940), 286.

210 The stars died: Lawrence Krauss, American theoretical physicist and cosmologist, “A Universe from Nothing,” Atheist Alliance International Festival, 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo.

210 I was reading about how countless species: Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes: Scientific Progress Goes Boink! (Kansas City, MO: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1991), 29.

210 What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie: Heinz Pagels, The Cosmic Code: Quantum Physics as the Language of Nature (Mineola, NY: Courier Dover Publications, 2012), 343.

211 There are more things in heaven and earth: William Shakespeare, Hamlet, act II, scene 1 (London: William Heinemann, 1904), 34.

211 There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving: Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop (Chicago: Dalkey Archive Press, 1944), 71.

211 Every grain of sand, every tip of a leaf: Gerhard Staguhn, God’s Laughter: Man and His Cosmos (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 109.

211 My goal is simple: Stephen Hawking, in John Boslough, Stephen Hawking’s Universe (New York: William Morrow, 1985), 77–78. 211 The universe is made of stories: Muriel Rukeyser, “The Speed of Darkness,” 1968, Poetry Foundation, http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245984.

212 It is well to remember that the entire universe: John Andrew Holmes (1874–1937), American physician and author, (Wisdom in Small Doses, 1927), in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 272.

212 Color is the place: Paul Cézanne, in Galen A. Johnson and Michael B. Smith, The Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1993), 141.

212 It is inconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in Baron Hallam Tennyson, Alfred lord [sic] Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1897), 379.

212 If you’re looking for the key: Anonymous.

212 The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well: Douglas Adams, “Is There an Artificial God?” speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, England, http://www.biota.org/people/douglasadams/index.html; Cambridge U.K., September 1998.

212 The heart that breaks open: Joanna Macy, in James Miller, Thoughts from Earth (Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing, 2004), 130.

213 The universe is so unhuman: John Burroughs, The Light of Day (Boston: Houghton Mifflin: 1900), 183.

213 If it’s true that our species is alone: George Carlin, Napalm and Silly Putty (New York: Hyperion, 2002), 59.

213 Human beings have a natural tendency: Sean Carroll, American theoretical physicist, The Reality Club, The Edge, http://www.edge.org/discourse/science_faith.html.

213 Man is a piece of the universe: Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Uses of Great Men,” The Complete Works, vol. IV (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1904), http://www.bartleby.com/90/0401.html#txt11.

213 If the stars are suns and the earth is the earth: Gertrude Stein, Everybody’s Autobiography (New York: Random House, 2013), 149.

214 The universe is full of magical things: Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes (London: Forgotten Books, 2012), 13.

Wisdom

215 Distance makes the mountain blue: Icelandic proverb, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, If Ignorance Is Bliss, Why Aren’t There More Happy People? Smart Quotes for Dumb Times (New York: Random House, 2009), 135.

215 Never stay up on the barren heights: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 76. 215 A man thinks that by mouthing hard words: Herman Melville, White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War (New York: United States Book Co., 1892), http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10712/10712- h/10712-h.htm.

215 The beginning of wisdom: Yohannes Gebregeorgis, “How I Became an Atheist,” in Norm R. Allen, Jr., ed., The Black Humanist Experience: An Alternative to Religion (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2003), 104.

216 I don’t let my mouth: Louis Armstrong, in Tram Nguyen, Language Is a Place of Struggle: Great Quotes by People of Color (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 257.

216 City wisdom became almost entirely centered: James Lovelock, Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), 126.

216 The spread, both in width and depth: Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 1.

216 There are years that ask questions: Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (New York: HarperCollins, 2009), 52.

216 The last word in ignorance is the man who says: Aldo Leopold, in Nancy Pittman, From the Land: Articles Compiled from the Land 1941–1954 (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1988), 417.

217 I suppose it is tempting: Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (New York: Harper, 1966), 15.

217 You never understand everything: Philip Anderson, American Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1977, in David Pratt, The Impossible Takes Longer: The 1,000 Wisest Things Ever Said by Nobel Prize Laureates (New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009), 81.

217 This is education: To learn to wish: Stoic Maxim, in Frederic May Holland, The Reign of the Stoics: Their History, Religion, Philosophy, Maxims of Self-Control, Self-Culture, and Justice (New York: C. P. Somerby, 1879), 91.

217 What you’re doing: Anonymous.

217 Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much: William Cowper, The Works of William Cowper: Table Talk. The Task. Tirocinium; or, A Review of Schools. Miscellaneous Poems (Edinburgh: Fraser & Company, 1835), 283.

218 The human mind always makes progress: Madame De Staël, trans., L’esprit humain fait progrès toujours, mais c’est progrès en spirale, Madame La Baronne De Staël-Holstein, Ouevres Complètes, vol. II (Paris: Didot Frères & Co, 1836), 202.

218 Anything worth doing: Mae West, attributed. See: “Long Quotes: Mae West,” The Long Now Foundation. http://blog.longnow.org/02010/11/29/long-quotes-mae-west/. 218 Silence is one of the hardest arguments: Josh Billings, Everybody’s Friend: Or Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (Minneapolis: American Publishing Company, 1874), 215.

218 Rigid, the skeleton of habit: Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, in Selected Works of Virginia Woolf (Ware, UK: Wordsworth Editions, 2007), 158.

218 A genius is someone: Jacob Bronowski, Polish-Jewish British mathematician and historian of science, The Ascent of Man (New York: Little, Brown, 1973), 433.

218 If one cannot state a matter clearly enough: Margaret Mead, in Jeremy McClancy and Christian McDonaugh, Popularizing Anthropology (New York: Routledge, 2002), 123.

218 Too much consistency is as bad: Aldous Huxley, “Wordsworth in the Tropics,” The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley, vol. 27 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1956), 125.

219 Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age: Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks, Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations, #1171, The Writings of Leonardo da Vinci (Douglas Editions, 2010), 92.

219 I do not believe in a fate that falls on men: G. K. Chesterton, in Kevin Belmonte, A Year with G. K. Chesterton: 365 Days of Wisdom, Wit, and Wonder (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2012), 220.

219 Lots of folks confuse bad management: Frank “Kin” Hubbard, in Robert W. Kent, Money Talks: The 2,500 Greatest Business Quotes from Aristotle to DeLorean (New York: Pocket Books, 1986), 207.

219 You are lost the instant you know: Juan Gris, quoted in Robert Motherwell and Harold Rosenberg, “The Question of What Will Emerge Is Left Open” (1947), in Herschel Browning Chipp and Peter Howard Selz, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968), 489.

219 Human history becomes more and more a race: H. G. Wells, The Outline of History (1920), in W. Warren Wagar, H. G. Wells: Traversing Time (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004), 162.

219 You can think as much as you like: Russian proverb, in Sy Safransky, Sunbeams: A Book of Quotations (Berkeley: North Atlantic Books, 2012), 10.

220 We shed as we pick up: Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, scene 3, in Plays 5: Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood (New York: Macmillan, 1999), 90.

Wonder

221 Barn’s burnt down: Mizuta Masahide, in Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto, Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter (New York: Grove Press, 1977), 77.

221 There is light in shadow: Lucy Larcom, “Blue in Black Sky,” The Poetical Works of Lucy Larcom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1884), 162. 221 People say there’s delays on flights . . . really?: Louis C. K., “Everything’s Amazing and Nobody’s Happy,” Late Night with Conan O’Brien (2011), NBC Universal television, http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/02/25/282516865/everythings-amazing-and-nobodys-happy.

221 Like Confucius of old: Pearl S. Buck, “Roll Away the Stone,” This I Believe, NPR (1939; rebroadcast January 22, 2010), http://thisibelieve.org/essay/16412/.

222 The sacred is right now: Marie Howe, American poet, interview with , Fresh Air, NPR, October 19, 2011, http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=141502211.

222 Whoever invented the word “grace”: Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac (New York: Ballantine, 1949/1991), 67.

222 We’re just people stuck on this planet in the midst of the solar system: Lisa Randall, astrophysicist, “Lisa Randall’s Guide to the Galaxy,” Smithsonian Magazine, June 2013, http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lisa-randalls-guide-to-the-galaxy-71799164/?no-ist.

222 Somebody else may have my rapturous glance at the archangels: Zora Neale Hurston, “Religion,” Dust Tracks on a Road (New York: Arno Press, 1969), 287.

222 There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers: Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species; Or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 1st ed. (London: John Murray, 1859). http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1228/1228-h/1228-h.htm.

223 I asked him the most important question that I think you could ask: Jesse Ventura, “They Said It,” , May 28, 2001, http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1022614/index.htm.

223 A man is a very small thing and the night is very large: Lord Dunsany, Plays of God and Men (Holicong, PA: Wildside Press, 2002), 72.

223 The term supernatural is unintelligible to me: Oliver Sacks, in Dick Staub, “Oliver Sacks,” Christianity Today, June 1, 2002, http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2002/juneweb-only/6-24- 21.0.html.

223 This is what non-scientists don’t know: Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science: A Reconnaissance (Chapel Hill, NC: Maurice Bassett, 2004), 91.

224 As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they become armored against wonder: Leonard Cohen, The Favourite Game, in The Favourite Game and Beautiful Losers (New York: Random House, 2009), 26.

224 Life is not to have fun: Karel Čapek, attributed. See: LionelofParis.com, http://www.lionelofparis.com/post/38963928803#notes.

224 It doesn’t matter to me if you call it God or the cosmos: Michael Shermer, “The Joys of Life Without God,” Salon, August 23, 2006, http://www.salon.com/2006/08/23/shermer_2/. 224 Philosophy begins in wonder: Alfred North Whitehead, Nature and Life (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 96.

224 Wonder is what the philosopher endures most: Plato, quoted in Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013), 302.

224 From the sublime: Napoleon Bonaparte, in Sir Archibald Alison, History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, vol. 3 (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1842), 593, https://archive.org/details/historyofeuropef03alis.

224 The world is a stunningly: Daniel Dennett, “Daniel Dennett Discusses Secular Spirituality,” Big Think, http://bigthink.com/videos/daniel-dennett-discusses-secular-spirituality.

225 Find something that isn’t a miracle: Laurence Housman, in John Lloyd and John Mitchinson, QI: Advanced Banter (London: Faber & Faber, 2008), 215.

Work

226 Work is the only good thing: John Steinbeck, in Robert Demott, Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath (New York: Penguin, 1990), xxxii.

226 The life of leisure: James Merrill, “The Art of Poetry No. 31,” The Paris Review, Summer 1982, www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3154/the-art-of-poetry-no-31-james-merrill.

226 To apply oneself: Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (New York: Random House, 1953), 472.

226 What you have to do now: Anna Held Audette, American artist and teacher (1938–2013), The Blank Canvas: Inviting the Muse (Boston: Shambhala Publications, 2013), 58.

226 Most people spend: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (New York: Penguin, 1989), xxx.

227 What man actually needs: Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (Boston: Beacon Press, 2006), 166.

227 Labor is the only prayer: Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, vol. XI (New York: Cosimo, Inc., 2009), 109.

Sources

232 “I believe it is an established maxim in morals”: Roy P. Basler, editor, Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (New York: Da Capo Press, 2001), 187.