Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

No skill is more crucial to the future of a child than literacy.

Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.

Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and proclaim ourselves civilized.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

I strongly believe the DREAM Act should require the completion of a degree.

I have a wardrobe full of expensive clothes, but wear the same two T-shirts. I've never found a look.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

Jared sidled up. He was not very good at sidling; he was more of a loomer.