Chicken fat beef fat fish fat fried foods - these are the foods that fuel our fat genes by giving them raw materials for building body fat.

It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks we still share genes around and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.

Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.

My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.

I would ask my dad what he did and he'd say 'I listen to people's problems.' In some way what he did for a living is in my genes.

I'm really really lucky. I was given my dad's good genes.

Survival in the cool economics of biology means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

The world is a crazy beautiful ugly complicated place and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away that's when this stuff comes.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.