Throughout history, only a small number of people have done the serious thinking for everybody.

A claim that event horizons exist is like someone's claim to be immortal: You would have to wait until the end of time to confirm the claim.

It's easy to make money, a lot tougher to make a difference

Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Problems exist only in the human mind.

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

I love acting because it's a bit of an escape. It gives you the ability to reinvent yourself. They say that acting is the shy man's revenge.

If I had a Salvador Dali painting, I would cuddle it to sleep.

When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol.

Therefore, a man ought to root himself so firmly in God that he will not need the consolations of men.

Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.