Few sights in science are sadder than astronomers standing in the rain.

Cosmology is serious business and in our hearts we are nothing if not cosmologists, hanging in a cold cage sifting the ruthless jewels of existence.

Regarding the Laws of Thermodynamics: "(1) You can't win, (2) you can't break even, and (3) you can't get out of the game.

There's always a faster gun.

It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.

It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people.

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

When Andy Carroll first appeared on the scene he was a tall skinny kid and his coordination was all over the place. He reminded me of a giraffe.

Every great master will find it useful to have his own theory on the openings, which only he himself knows, a theory which is closely linked with plans for the middle game.

Just as with running, there were days that I didnt feel like writing; I wrote anyways.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.