The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not. And if we can't unplug from that machine, eventually we're going to become mindless.

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

We are as much alive as we keep the Earth alive.

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

Dharma is another name for existence. It is existence in its purest form.

Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.

I could not help feeling that they were evil things -- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss.

I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

I drank my liver out.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Freedom's possibility is not the ability to choose the good or the evil. The possibility is to be able.