The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth.

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.

Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so you might as well be happy, and make the most of where you are

I thought I had everything until I found you.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

NAFTA is the worst trade deal maybe ever signed anywhere, but certainly ever signed in this country.

When man continues to destroy nature, he saws the very branch on which he sits since the rational protection of nature is at the same time the protection of mankind

I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.

There is a nationwide shortage of drugs for Attention Deficit Disorder. The FDA says they're not sure how it happened. I guess somebody wasn't paying attention.

I think all writers are a bit crazy; Damaged souls, incapable of doing anything else.

You are never truly together with one you love until the person in question is dead and actually inside you.