The microbe is nothing; the terrain is everything.
When you do something best in the world, you can’t really improve on that.
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them—and then, the opportunity to choose.
To create is to breathe life into the lifeless, to give form to the formless.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."