Every decision we make today ripples across the marine ecosystem for decades.

Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience.

I'm not interested in making work that's easily digestible.

When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between a laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke—the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love.

If you have an apple and I have an apple, and we exchange apples, we both still only have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each now have two ideas.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.