“This [discovery of a cell-free yeast extract] will make him famous”

Even though he has no talent for chemistry.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.

One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.

In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.

When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.

If you use a cell phone – as I do – your wireless carrier likely has records about your physical movements going back months, if not years.

I’m for Barack Obama. We gotta have the Muslim cell in there just to piss Rush Limbaugh and the right wing off.

When one is undone—sprawled across the cold tile of a public bathroom in a pool of one’s own vomit, or shivering in the back of a taxi in a pair of urine-soaked skinny jeans with no money for cab fare and a dead cell phone battery.