My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.

I was trying to fit in for so long, until about Junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

If a machine can convincingly imitate humanity—can persuade a human being of its kinship—then what makes it inhuman? What, after all, is human thought but a series of electrical impulses?

Reusable rockets promise much easier testing because you should usually get them back, and you can debug as you go rather than having to get everything perfect the first time.

I'm not really someone who looks forward to the gym. But I realise it's something that I have to do to perform well on the pitch.

There are some people who do not have a wild past because being wild would make them terribly self-conscious and uncomfortable.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

A woman in love is a very poor judge of character.

My government career is over.

Modern neurosis began with the discoveries of Copernicus. Science made men feel small by showing him that the earth was not the center of the universe.

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

Last year, I reviewed a nine-hour documentary about the lives of Mongolian yak herdsmen, and I would rather see it again than sit through The Frighteners.