People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

Europe has resurrected its pagan gods.

The body is like the wife to the spirit. The two must cohabit to create new forms, but their pleasures rarely coincide.

History is scraps of evidence joined by the glue of imagination.

Gods have many faces.

When the mind grasps the universe, the senses retreat.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

Men and women in their mutual attraction are driven to the very emptiness they are trying to avoid.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.

Man is a mimic animal, happiest acting a part, needing a mask to tell the truth.

I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones.

If rhyme is a crime, my mic is my co-defendant.

For children: I'm writing a picture book about the Big Dipper and a novel about a cricket, a firefly and a vole. For grownups: I'm writing poems.

It is lunacy to be bringing refugees into this country who may be terrorists trying to murder Americans.

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

I think it's an important time not to Google myself.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility... It is the faith that it is the privilege of man to learn to understand, and that this is his mission.

I have your back. I didn't mean only when it's easy. All the time.