I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut.

It wasn't about believing this or that, it wasn't even about good and evil and right and wrong, it was about finding the strength to bear the discomfort that came with being in the world.

And it occurred to him that there were two parts to being a better person. One part was thinking about other people. The other part was not giving a toss what other people thought.

I like dogs. You always know what a dog is thinking. It has four moods. Happy, sad, cross and concentrating. Also, dogs are faithful and they do not tell lies because they cannot talk.

On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.

Everyone has learning difficulties, because learning to speak French or understanding relativity is difficult.

No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.

You love someone, you've got to let something go.

For me, disability is a way of getting some extremity, some kind of very difficult situation, that throws an interesting light on people.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

Sometimes we need to just brush away our pride, break down the walls around our hearts, and open up to those we truly care for.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.

Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.

Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].

I think when there's so much information to be eaten up, and so many ways to do it, people cling to groups. I think we, as monkeys, want to live in smaller groups.

True allegiance is only given willingly.

There is no easy way from the earth to the stars.

I never loved totalitarianism and all the ideas of making mankind happy always seemed crazy to me.