“It's wonderful to me that bees have this simple, age-old thing going on.”

“BiologyThe film turns out to be about bees. It is a film about a bee center. How crap is this going to be? An hour laterThat was the best thing I have seen for ages. We made Miss Wilson rewind the bit where the two queens were having a bitch fight.”

“I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison”

“90/93-year-old Jacob wonders as he gazes at his aged reflection, 'When did I stop being me?”

“Old powers waken. Shadows stir. An age of wonder and terror will soon be upon us, and age for gods and heroes.”

“Oftentimes the thing that makes the difference between a good student and a poor one, a good learner or a bored human being, is just a little curiosity. If you have it, cultivate it, feed it. Never let it go. If you do not have it - get it. Wonder, watch, ask questions, be alive. It's just that simple”