Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much.

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

Am I about to feel really, really stupid?

Being a geek is all about learning the inventories of things.

Failure is always an option.

I learned at an early age that I could make the things that I wanted. That's a very powerful thing to realize as a kid. LEGOs were a key part of that.

The difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.

I reject your reality and substitute my own.

Don't work for fools. It's not worth it. Getting paid less to work for people you like and believe in is much better for you (and your career) in the long run.

It's sort of a mental attitude about critical thinking and curiosity. It's about mindset of looking at the world in a playful and curious and creative way.

Where the human knowledge ends, God's wisdom and power begins to manifest in abundance.

You were born to be amazing.

Having proceeded to this length, for which they are now ripe, we shall have a formidable rebellion against reason, the principle of all government, and against the very name of liberty.

When you have a creative mind it doesn't stop going.

We'll never get there if we let the climate crisis bloom unchecked, so for the moment the key is to organize, organize, organize!

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.

To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

There is nothing in the animal world, to my mind, more delightful than grown cats at play. They are so swift and light and graceful, so subtle and designing, and yet so richly comic.

Our fathers and ourselves sowed dragon's teeth. Our children know and suffer the armed men.

I think I don't view myself as an author. I view myself as a person. I view anything as part of being a person, so I feel okay with "marketing" or other things like that.