The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

I've never been afraid of being alone. For the sake of my work, I must be!

Cigars are all the rage, dad. You should smoke cigars!" - Calvin"Flatulence could be all the rage, but it would still be disgusting." - Calvin's mom

All of yesterday's ballers are today's road sweepers.

Earth to earth ashes to ashes dust to dust in sure and certain hope of the resurrection.

Among physicists, I'm respected I hope.

But when we find that one person who completes us, we don't give up. No matter how bad we screw up. We make it right.

My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about?

The new is not a fashion, it is a value.