And no answer when we sent our message. Something like, "Hello, welcome to Earth. Hope you enjoy your stay. Please don't kill us.

Why did they come billions of miles just to stare at us? It's rude.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Even the most sensitive person can get used to even the most insensitive thing. Cruelty isn’t a personality trait. Cruelty is a habit.

You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.

Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies.

You are the nest. You are the hatchling. You are the chrysalis. You are the progeny. You are the rot that falls from stars. You may not understand what I mean. You will.

You can only call someone crazy if there’s someone else who’s normal. Like good and evil. If everything was good, then nothing would be good.

It's almost dawn. You can feel it coming. The world holds its breath, because there's really no guarantee that the sun will rise. That there was a yesterday doesn't mean there will be a tomorrow.

It's hard to plan for what comes next when what comes next is not something you planned for.

Great leaders die empty. They live to offload everything they put in them! Don’t die with your books in your mind unpublished!

Pearls from the soul are more precious than diamonds from the mine.

I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

It isn't hard to stay in shape.

A lot of people have high expectations. I'm just going to do the best I can.

The last Christian died on a cross.

When a new idea comes our way, we must put it on our mental scales and weigh it carefully before deciding its value.

I was always very, very insecure about my height. Even as a 15-year-old I was a foot and a half taller than everyone.

No single organism could be understood without observing and comprehending the entire colony.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.