The human brain is by far the most complex physical object known to us in the entire cosmos.

Quite possibly, the purpose of the universe is to provide a congenial home for self-conscious creatures who can ask profound questions and who can probe the nature of the universe itself.

Fred Hoyle and I differ on lots of questions, but on this we agree: a common sense and satisfying interpretation of our world suggests the designing hand of a superintelligence.

Happy people think about how to help others and not how to get from others.

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

We Create God, Mankind's Nature.

I loved the abandoned subway stations, rushing past the darkened platforms, the sprawl of graffiti like old letters. Letters left by ghosts.

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.

I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

If a woman hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky.

When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I think it's just one of the those things where you have to play yourself out of it.

I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.