Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.

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.

Capture the essence of your aspirations by understand the true meaning of your intuitive thoughts.

I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.

I love Latin women, yet for some reason I always wind up with blondes.

I've done classical theaters. I played Hamlet myself and Romeo.

It's not good enough to just know what to say about the policy; it's really important to take the extra step to learn the policy, to be able to understand it, and articulate it.

On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.

Let us be elegant or die! --Amy

Nowadays, Cubans who enter from Cuba with a visa do not receive any aid.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

I don't care at all. I don't know the difference from one president to the next.