I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation

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.

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up.

Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property.

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

If I gave up writing, I'd have to find an equally obsessive way to fill my time. Yarn-bombing skyscrapers or making houses out of empty soda bottles.

Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce.

To be among people who are smothered in furs when one hasn't any oneself makes one want to break most of the Commandments.

It's the oldest question of all, George. Who can spy on the spies?

All ministry that is faithful & eventually fruitful finds its roots in the life, death, & resurrection of Jesus Christ.

In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state