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

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.

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.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!

My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a fourth sibling, with very serious asthma. The medical bills... So my parents always struggled.

You love as well as you are willing to be inconvenienced.

I feel very very old. My hair hurts. I have buttocks all over my body and I can't even smoke properly any more. I don't have lungs, I just have two poppadoms in here.

When you take the R sound out of French accent, and you just replace it with an R, it sounds Mexican.

Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.

Hope and despair ignore one another's cries.

Cocaine eyes won't hide your face.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.