The illegality of cannabis is outrageous.

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.

If a guy is put off by you being a feminist, you need to ask yourself how put off you are by someone who doesn't believe in equality for women.

Comment sections on the internet are like gang graffiti, abusive words sprayed like gibberish and it's ugly to look at.

With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home!

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

Some questions cannot be answered, but they can be decided.

It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end," said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be an actor. It has just always been an inevitability on some level.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.