If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

We experience happiness on a sensory level that is relatively short-lived. But lasting happiness is related to our state of mind.

Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

Even if I had stayed she wouldn't have ever wanted me. She didn't want me for anything more than a summer fling. I was a way of moving on for her.

Some people would rather die than think.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

If I practice Cherokee along with backing tracks would it be Chereoke?

While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.

You may have the right to live anyway you like, but you don't have a right to have other people like it. Respect it or pay for it.