Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

My hope is that the music creates a strange, beautiful, overwhelming - sometimes even frightening - landscape, and invites you to get lost in it.

Where the eye divides, the ear connects.

I’ve come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice, but we memorize the strangest things in a personwhen we're in love with them.

One of the first lessons a warrior is taught is that denial of one's circumstances only results in failure to recognize real danger.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.

SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

If I didn't have [a] wife, maybe I can say, 'Yeah, I'm disappointed I'm not maybe good looking.' ... I don't know about China, but in Russia, I still look good.

I wanted us to have a friendly relationship [with Kanye West]. He promised to play the song for me, but he never did.

I would love a recurring role on '90210.' I would say yes to just about any role in acting that doesn't tarnish my image.

Nations, like individuals, interest us in their growth.