Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.

The only way to define your limits is by going beyond them.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The moon is the first milestone on the road to the stars.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

God's codpiece, you're very kind

If someone wanted to be a runner, you don't tell them to think about running, you tell them to run. And the same simple idea applies to writing, I hope.

I must have seen more sunrises than any other actress in the history of Hollywood.

The mainstream media doesn't want to get into this because they don't want to know where this one goes.

Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.

It is the second job of literature to create myth. But its first job is to destroy it.

There's something about us using the word fascism and thinking about, "What is it? What does it mean, and what are the tenets of it?".

Our past can control today and tomorrow only to the degree we allow it. The past should not be a place where we dwell but a place from which we learn all we can and then move on.

You can't take people's opinions personally. Usually what people say about it is a reflection of them own issues.