Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

I love team sports.

Engineering is too important to wait for science.

Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

In Jewish tradition, death-defying devotion to scholarship was the stuff of saintliness.

ALL MEANINGFUL KNOWLEDGE IS FOR THE SAKE OF ACTION, AND ALL MEANINGFUL ACTION FOR THE SAKE OF FRIENDSHIP.

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.

I don’t envision a long life for myself. Like, I think my life will run out before my work does, y’know? I’ve designed it that way.