Nature is a tinkerer, not an inventor.

It is hope that gives life meaning. And hope is based on the prospect of being able one day to turn the actual world into a possible one that looks better.

The dream of every cell is to become two cells.

One of the deepest functions of a living organisms is to look ahead... to produce future.

Evolution is a tinkerer.

The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of structures by successive integrations.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next day, all that was euphoric. I lived in the future.

The important thing is not to survive, but to live.

Mankind is nothing but a playground of consciousness.

Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

[T]here is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each of us with our own little picture -- in front of us -- our own little mirage that we think is the future.

Basically, I am a good, gentle person, but I am attracted to mean personalities.

Sometimes, a wife must do what her husband cannot.

And Thou, vast Ocean! on whose awful face Time’s iron feet can print no ruin-trace, By breezes lull’d, or by the storm-blasts driv’n, Thy majesty uplifts the mind to heaven.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

Each man's soul is his genius.