It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.

When I meet God, I am going to ask him two questions: Why relativity ? And why turbulence ? I really believe he will have an answer for the first.

What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real; they form a world of potentialities or possibilities rather than one of things or facts.

"Uncertainty" is NOT "I don't know." It is "I can't know." "I am uncertain" does not mean "I could be certain."

The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Looking at something changes it.

The reality we can put into words is never reality itself.

Humans, so easily electrified by the snap, crackle, pop of blood, brutality, and butchery.

I didn't know it would be black, " she murmured with a little smile.Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

I'd love to star in dark drama that audiences could really relate to.

If you get bored with nothing to do, you are not a writer ... We are in the business of reproducing reality from nothing. We are the biggest liars in the world, seeking truth.

Suffering is the ancient law of love; there is no quest without pain; there is no lover who is not also a martyr.

Man is ice to truth and fire to falsehood.

We are each called to go through life reclaiming the planet an inch at a time until the Garden of Eden grows green again.

I often think of myself as the discoverer-in-chief.

Funny how the world always praises its opera-singers so much and pays 'em so well and then starves its shoemakers, and yet it needs good shoes so much more than it needs opera--or war or fiction.

One by one, I could find a house that somebody had restored properly, and then another one, and now it's like a virus. Everybody in Palm Springs wants to do it.