The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

It is all right to make mistakes; nothing is perfect because with perfection, we would not exist.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.

Change happens a lot more than you acknowledge...

When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square?

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

The Zionists have no right to the land of Palestine. There is no place for them on the land of Palestine.

I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their language poured into my ears only to drain right out a little spigot in the back of my head.