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“How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
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“The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.”
Source : Adam Gopnik (2000). “Paris to the Moon”, Random House Incorporated
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“It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language.”
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“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”
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“I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting.”
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“Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.”
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“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012. 
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“The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.”
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“The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.”
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“LSD wanted to tell me something.... It gave me an inner joy, an open mindedness, a gratefulness, open eyes and an internal sensitivity for the miracles of creation.”
Source : "LSD: The Geek's Wonder Drug?". www.wired.com. January 16, 2006.
