Were getting closer and closer to finding a habitable world.

Being a scientist is like being an explorer. You have this immense curiosity, this stubbornness, this resolute will that you will go forward no matter what other people say.

Understanding different planets in their environments is still really important. So if these planets are dead lifeless worlds, it will still be useful for us.

Turn down things that are in consistence with your priorities.

There's only three things you need to do when you are finished editing your book - Sleep! Sleep! and Sleep!

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.

Battles over water in the West are always about something more. At their most elemental, they are about survival.

Jamaica has the best coffee, the best sugar, the best ginger and some of the best cocoa in the world.

The world is starving for American leadership. But America has an anti-war president.

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Literature has become my life.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.