It's pretty much without color. It's gray, and it's a very white, chalky gray... I'm looking at the Earth. It's big and bright and beautiful. -- Neil Armstrong comparing the Moon and the Earth immediately after the Apollo 11 landing Our Moon is the high school...

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love... Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair. -- Søren Kierkegaard Despair is not correlated with any particular set of emotions but is instead marked by a...

For me, playing a guitar is like the ancient art of weaving. It's about more than one player. At our best, me and Ronnie make the Bayeux Tapestry onstage. -- Keith Richards The front of a tapestry is art. In the hands of a skilled weaver it displays incredible...

If you have ever driven on a Houston freeway, even for just one day, you've had this experience... The right lanes are completely clogged with people entering and exiting the freeway. So you get in the left lane where there's a line of cars stretching from Beaumont to...

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. -- Elie Wiesel I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. -- Søren Kierkegaard Our hominin grandparents developed the ability to speak almost two million years ago. Their first spoken words were We...

I became a vampire ten years ago. It was then that I ceased to have a reflection. When I look in a mirror I see, not myself, but a stranger who stands behind me. The countenance of the stranger blends the faces of my father and my mother’s father. He is aging rapidly...

And sometime very late in this long and arduous four-billion year evolutionary journey, a wondrous and extraordinary relationship was forged between two distantly related species: humans and dogs... I think, in many ways, it is we humans who have benefited most. --...