We are not smart enough to decide which pieces of knowledge are permissible and which are not.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Music is the language of soul

Failure is a great teacher

Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.

I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

Advertising does something important as a sector - culturally and especially economically

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

Learning is the very essence of humility . . .

Loyalty to your country should never require you to lie about it.