I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.

With correction, and given the chance, 'Terra Nova' can and will deliver seasons of transcendent images and story-telling. 'Terra Nova' is the Hubble Telescope of television.

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

This is the way to hear music, I think, surrounded by rolling hills and farmlands, under a big sky.

I grew up in cattle country-that's why I became a vegetarian. Meat stinks, for the animals, the environment, and your health.

To dance is human, to polka is divine.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.

The secret of all greatness is in knowing what to do with time.

In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.

Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

Time is a device to stop everything from happening at once ... space is a device to stop everything from happening in Cambridge.

It's a skill that people are born with. Either you're a focuser or you're a multitasky person. I am a full-focus person.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

I'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.

Leaders aren't born they are made.