People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward — get real with yourself.

I'll never stop appreciating how lucky I am.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

The final hour of colonialism has struck, and millions of inhabitants of Africa, Asia and Latin America rise to meet a new life and demand their unrestricted right to self-determination.

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty. ... I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.

I was painfully shy as a child.

One thing I know about Willie Hutch: my homie, [Big] Jerm, listens to nothing but Soul music, so he put me on to all this Soul music back in the day.

There's the exciting part about comedy - if you catch an act just before they go mainstream, that's the best. After they hit the mainstream, everything gets watered down a little bit.