We live in an in-between universe where things change all right...but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.

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.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

Putin is behaving in a very dangerous way. And Donald Trump sounds as though he would simply sit back and allow that to go on. I worry about where that would end up.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

I invite you to consider anew what you know and what you have; what you are here for and where you are going; and how you are going to do what you have come here to do. p 13

I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.

You look upon the seasons with expectation and await them: wy not seize the seasonal opportunities and exploit them?