It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.

In the short term, some deadly virus might be more important, but in the long run there is hardly anything more important than asteroids.

You almost wish you could turn off the COMM and just appreciate the deafening quiet.

So I just let go with one hand, and just sort of swung around, looked at the Earth below and the black space above and the sun over my shoulder. And, I mean, it was this incredible, spectacular view.

We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.

We not only need to train people, we also need to develop deflection technologies.

We can both prevent asteroid impacts and address climate change. It's not either-or.

Anytime we can save lives or prevent the destruction of property, we should do it.

While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

Journalists often put things into either-or scenarios.

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to read the notes. Otherwise it will be a disaster.

My advice would be to write-never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Smoking is indispensable if one has nothing to kiss

Today will soon enough become tomorrow and spent wisely, will then become a yesterday to remember.

Rename your “To-Do” list to your “Opportunities” list. Each day is a treasure chest filled with limitless opportunities

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Every time we feel satisfied with what we have, we can be counted as rich, however little we may actually possess.

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.