When I was a kid, I did dial the 900 numbers out of curiosity, but I was such a goodie-two-shoes that I immediately hung up because I didn't want it showing up on the bill.

And what if all of animated nature Be but organic harps diversely framed, That tremble into thought, as o'er them sweeps Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze, At once the Soul of each, and God of All?

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.

If it doesn't say Binford on it, somebody else probably made it.

We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

What we have to be is what we are.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

If there is one thing I am, it's always right.

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.

I'm just quizzical about how things work and why things are.

Wonderful , the Flatline said, I never did like to do anything simple when I could do it ass-backwards.

In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in the way but will lend a hand from simple curiosity and amazement.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

How a person seems to show up for us is intimately connected to how we choose to show up for them.

“If swindling pays, then it will not stop. [...] you cannot have a good society unless virtue pays.”

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

"It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer."

"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment."

"When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before the first bed of the Cambrian system was deposited, they seem to me to become ennobled."

"Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go."

"I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust."

"Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty."

"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."