The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

Falling in love indicated that your genes were complementary to those of the loved one. It told you nothing about when your personalities and sexualities were compatible.

What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

Change the problem by changing your mind.

The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.

All life is a struggle for existence. Why should it cease to be a struggle if it spreads among the stars?

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.

For us scientists, on the other wing, life is not quite so simple. Because we learn the unknown. Unlike, hah-hah, our esteemed friends the philosophers, who learn the unknowable.

Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties. Who yearned for the same things all of us do--to love and be loved

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most it is not he who gives alms or is most eminent for temperance chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.

Many are destined to reason wrongly others not to reason at all: and others to persecute those who do reason.

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Some record labels want to package you in a certain way and we didn't want that. Once the record company saw we had some substance and were not a one hit wonder. They got 100% behind us.

I don't rock for Cancer. I rock for cash, and the topless dancers.

If any foes of mine are there, I pardon every one: I hope that man and womankind will do the same by me.

The more security we have, the less freedom there is; more freedom means less security. You can hardly enough of both at the same time.