The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Let your days become a fragrant song where heaven and earth continually collide

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

We own our movie and are now close to breaking even, even without finishing domestic DVD deals.

One writes to find words' meanings.

I like to be able to play a character and act out a lot of things which I can't or don't do in my normal everyday life.

In order to lead the orchestra, you must first turn your back to the crowd.

I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

The customer is the most important part of the production line.