I am damned if I'm going to die before I have unraveled more of the universe

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Are you in great physical pain, or is that your thinking expression?

Negotiating with Disney isn't like good cop/bad cop; it's like bad cop/Antichrist.

I'm a director and a writer, and I'm used to having my way. I'm not used to being a vessel for other people.

Rome is everybody's memory.

The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning's transient shower.

When there is no vision, there is no hope.

The U.S. incarcerates more of its people than any nation in the world, or any nation in history.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

I once dated a girl that was wild. She was so wild that one night she gave her phone number to the mechanical bull.

When we say the South lost the Civil War, we mean the white South. The blacks were liberated. And it's trying to redefine this Southern myth and bring it in a more positive direction.