Everything looks nonsensical before it works.

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries.

Usually the wacky people have the breakthroughs. The smart people dont.

A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.

I believe that research, that you can claim that you're doing research only if half of the people, and I'm talking about half of the experts, believe that the goal is impossible.

A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense.

NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding

I have a hunch the most important reason we're going to space is not known now.

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

The mountain of superstition has to be leveled for our people to taste a fresh breath of life in Christ Jesus.

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

She could only write with him at night and she was wasting her days just sitting around. So he thought I could write with her during the day. And that was Carole King.

The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican.

I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?

There are only 24 hours in a day. We need to quit trying to be awesome and instead be wise.

Being on television, playing the same character for many years, for me, I think that would get a little tedious.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

It was really fun [on set of the Pineapple Express]. I mean, how could I not have fun? It was exactly what you think it would be.