Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

I cannot change the people around me, but I can change what kind of people are around me.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days.

I'd rather throw a viper down my shirt front than hire a compensation consultant.

One thing changes every evening: It's the audience, and I'm working my magic. I'm always learning from it.

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

I had my neck hurt for like five years, I could barely move my neck from doing this stunt, I almost died twice doing stunts, it's really dangerous.

Daikatana will be the greatest game of all time.

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguished virtues.