Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

The greatest requirement placed on fallen humanity was not one of responsibility but one of relationship. (The Lonesome God)

People come in with business plans and, I mean I know that no one is going to meet everything they say in a business plan but you got to have something to, to guide towards.

Illinois has less than a 12 percent black population and I won with 55 percent of the vote.

I'll be a poet, and you'll be poetry.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Beyond the ten thousand states of mind is the still point. It exists within them all, yet beyond them. It is not affected by them. It gives birth to them. This is the riddle.

To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.

I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.

It's a terrible thing that we cannot really trust the FDA or NCI (National Cancer Institute). We need, therefore, an independent scientific investigation.

Normally when I'm writing, in the beginning I don't think of lyrics at all. I'm just improvising.