My dignity and good television - they'll never meet.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Failure is always an option.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

And with that, I’m going to crawl into bed and try to erase all that has happened today.

The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.

Looking into the spirit of others is sometimes like looking into a pond. Though we aim to see what's deep in the bottom, we are often distracted by our own reflection.

You want to come back to the bank vault?” Jack says.The bank vault. That’s what Jack calls his house.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Part of my life is saving life.

...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.

If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.

Don't be over complacent or too feverish, take a middle path.