My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.
When you're dealing with the universe, ignorance can be deadly.
A lot of them complain because they say the word denial puts them in the same bin as holocaust deniers. That's too bad. But the thing is, they do have something in common: a denial of evidence and of scientific consensus.
Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.
Pseudoscience is like a virus. At low levels, it's no big deal, but when it reaches a certain threshold it becomes sickening.
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places. . . and that's just at Saturn.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O. K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O. K. ; kicking little girls in the head is O. K. ; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O. K.
There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.