What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.

I alternate between thinking of the planet as home - dear and familiar stone hearth and garden - and as a hard land of exile in which we are all sojourners.

You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If, however, you want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is necessary. But the stars neither require nor demand it.

I would like to learn, or remember, how to live.

Nature's silence is its one remark, and every flake of world is a chip off that old mute and immutable block.

The soul may ask God for anything, and never fail.

I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.

The storm is here and now. The rains come and water floods our lives. Nothing last forever and the rainbow always appears.

I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.

Most people are good only so long as they believe others to be so.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

I know a lot of the intense moments in 'Titanic' were made that much easier and were pushed to even further limits because of that relationship.

There shall be no Alps.

Death will come when thou art dead, soon, too soon.

Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.

When you're moving in the positive, your destination is the brightest star.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.