Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The key for me was to have faith and trust in God to transform me. This was scary because the foundation that once kept me safe and secure was being taken from me!

The best thing Jay-Z ever taught me was patience.

The thing I'd miss most is the feeling when acting is going well, when you start a play and you end the night and you look back and go, "What just happened?"

We are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love.

BuzzFeed started as a lab with a small team where we would play with ideas.

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

Don't wait to buy real estate. Buy real estate and wait.

In brief, I spend half my time trying to learn the secrets of other writers - to apply them to the expression of my own thoughts.