I decided I needed to give up something, so I gave up teaching.

Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.

Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.

We became astronomers thinking we were studying the universe, and now we learn that we are just studying the 5 or 10 percent that is luminous.

No observational problem will not be solved by more data.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Three of my children married Jewish people. One did not and that marriage didn't last more than half a dozen years or so. The others are still very close.

Religion is not the most important thing.

It's certainly true that most of my close friends are Jewish.

She had penetrated his dream, but not in the way he penetrated hers.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

I know a lot of people that still buy comics, go to the shop every week, I know people who read them on an iPad. My brother reads on an iPad every week, he downloads his comics every week.

No time is wasted time

Do not be more devoted to your own brain than you are to the Bible.

We are just living this moment; we don't have to live 150,000 moments at once. We are only living one. That's why I say you might as well practice with each moment.

Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.

When it comes to my family I never quite know how protective I have to be, or what I should or shouldn't say.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.