I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

Loneliness is a hell of a drug.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

If you're selling something on Craiglist, it's never a good idea to end the description with, May have lice.

I know, as an actor, I don't like sharing everything with the director. And it's fine if they don't with me.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

The older I get the wiser and more skillful I get.

I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.