I write pre-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, I’m not interested in a future where everything is blown to hell, I’d rather write something that helps to prevent it from happening.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

Technology has not made humanity any wiser, it has only made us more dangerous.

Sometimes you come to realize you understand something but you can’t explain it to anyone, not even yourself. This is perhaps the most sacred kind of understanding.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Where there is hope there is life.

Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played.

Forgiveness does not change the past, that’s for sure, but it does change the future.

If only he could convince her, his dream would be within reach.

True love is generative. It is the only kind that makes more of itself as it goes along.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer.

I'm a huge E! fan. Every hotel room, I watch it all the time. 'E! News' is fantastic.

A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.

A joke isn't a joke until someone laughs.