I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.

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?

Jesus is more likely to lead you across the street than across the ocean.

For three months, a person sits and looks at you, imagining a kiss.

Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.

When a man is pleased with the lot of others, he is dissatisfied with his own, as a matter of course.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.

I'm always afraid of failing. It's great motivation to work harder.

I never work from an outline, and often I dont know how the story will end.

The human cardiovascular system evolved as part of the physiology of [prehistoric] hunters, who ran for their lives.