There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Someone went upside my head again.