Physics advances by accepting absurdities. Its history is one of unbelievable ideas proving to be true.

I've always thought of my own mind as an unruly parliament, with a feeble leader, with crazy extremist factions.

But one day I woke up and heard myself saying, I am a fork being used to eat cereal. I am not a spoon. I am a fork. And I can’t help people eat cereal any longer.

The magnificently humble. The enormously small. The meaningfully ridiculous. Robert Walser's work often reads like a dazzling answer to the question, How immense can modesty be?

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

It's true what they say, that a baby gives you a reason to live. But also, a baby is a reason that it is not permissible to die. There are days when this does not feel good.

He is my unicorn, though... That's how I felt falling in love with him, as if I'd found a creature of myth.

Fallon, I’m worked up so damn tight. I’m going to kiss you now and I’m not sorry.

It's nice to know you have support. Last night I got a marriage proposal. I just laughed.

To be able to touch lives, and touch a life that you don't even know, is an extraordinary thing.

I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.

Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

Your own mental attitude is your real boss.

More valuable than treasures in a storehouse are the treasures of the body. The most valuable of all are the treasures of the heart.

This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

So it's worth some real up front time to think through the long term value and the defensibility of the business.

The [Bernie] Sanders campaign said you might be suppressing the vote by doing this 'cause people in those states might decide to stay home, that their vote doesn't count.