If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.

The hardest thing is to make this little space for yourself where you can think and not get inundated with other stuff coming in.

If you've got a deadline and you're an artist, you've just got to be on the case - nothing else can come in the way, or you won't make good work... the people around you just have to understand.

If you neglected to warn Djetth beforehand that you were going to shoot him down, Your Highness, he may consider you in breach of contract...

Never stop learning, when you stop learning, life stops.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.

That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

We find certains things about seeing puzzling, because we do not find the whole business of seeing puzzling enough.

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance.