Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.

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?

Hey No one makes me do anything. Not my family. Not your family...not even you.

They assembled from all sides, one after another, with arms and horses and all the panoply of war.

All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.

When I was young and growing up overweight, I believed the "eaten" was more powerful than the "eater," meaning the food was more powerful than I was.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

As an individual, I take every match seriously, no matter who I'm going to play.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

My best dreams and worst nightmares have the same people in them.

What you aim for, as an actor, is to be able to play a range of different roles.

You have to do the research. If you don't know about something, then you ask the right people who do.