The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them.

Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets.

Claiming there is no other life in the universe is like scooping up some water, looking at the cup and claiming there are no whales in the ocean.

Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled.

If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.

We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

It's just the end of some things.And the beginning of others.

Shine brightly thy inner light.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

Jealousy is love in competition.

Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

It's much harder to be an in-house person than an outside person.

I don't know where the line is. I don't know how much of myself is in Walter. There's got to be a bit of him there.

The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.