The challenge in catalysis is not just making reactions faster, but making them smarter.
Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion voices, and everyone’s thoughts striving in equal importance and everyone’s claim on life as intense, and everyone thinking they were unique, when no one was. One could drown in irrelevance.
"I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things."