An atheist is someone who is certain that God doesn't exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Governments can do both great and stupid things.

I feel great. I'm right there for the top two. I know my long is a very strong program and I've had lots of success with it, so I feel confident going into the long. Just fix up that loop.

Don't think about making art, just get it done.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

I'm free of hypochondria-- although I've got everything else.

Art must not stop at the level of pleasing eyes.

You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.

Good things come to those who initiate.