We are the custodians of life's meaning.

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.

The only things that were available to me were either be a laborer or be a drug dealer. So I became an armed robber. It was a lot simpler.

I always hung around older dudes. I feel like I was more wise and I just had more knowledge of what was going on.

My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Write for the right reasons - i.e. yourself.

Scratch an altruist and watch a hypocrite bleed.

People ask me for my autograph after a show. I'm not famous, I think they're messing with me. I think they're trying to make me late for something.

One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

There are different chemistries you can have in different bands, and part of that's caused by the gender.