We are one species. We are starstuff.

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.

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.

Water is the driving force in nature.

The world is drowned in silence, who will tell your story ? Who tells doesn't know you and who knows, cannot say it.

Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change.

Much of my work has been done in first person.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

There are dedicated actors and there are people now who only stay famous for putting on weight, losing it, then putting it on again.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

My strokes just weren't there.

The character of a people may be ruined by charity.