As human beings, don't we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Happiness is there when perceptions and expectations are in joyful harmony.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

You need to be in the position where it is the cost of the fuel that actually matters and not the cost of building the rocket in the first place.

I subscribe to William Faulkner's' view that history is not just about what we were before but who we are now.

If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It's in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can't listen to it without filling up.

I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.

The enemy shapes the brand.

Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.