I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

I think acting for sure takes a lot of dedication, especially when you're starting out, because it's so much rejection and it's so important to really study and know your craft.

Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

Running is my meditation, mind flush, cosmic telephone, mood elevator and spiritual communion.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

Editing is a natural extension of collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.

If complexity doesn't beat you, paradox will.