Extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence

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.

Knowledge is potential power, but wisdom is the readily available power of the mind.

Being love-filled and beautiful is one of the most powerful defenses that one can employ.

Look at you. Riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.

Cartooning is an honorable thing

Don't buy one of those baby intercoms. Babies pretend to be dead. They're bastards, and they do it on purpose.

You're trying to just leave the world a little better.

...being torn apart by far too many loyalties that could not possibly live together in the same brain.

I write well on the road. I have the energy, I have the motivation to write. I'm happy when I'm on the road.

I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World