We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

God is not described in equations.

All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

~ "Harmony, and not peace, is the key element that can bring all nations of the world together. In science we cannot prove peace, but we can prove what harmony is!

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Latin food suffers like Chinese. You can do marginal Chinese and be successful. You can do crappy Mexican and be packed.

We need Grace and forgiveness.

Journalistic information and presentation actually discourage action... we think we know, and because we think we know, we think we care. But it stops there.

The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.

These heavy troubles are heralds of weighty mercies.

You're going to be unemployed if you really think you just have to sit around and wait for the muse to land on your shoulder.

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.

Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.