When you get crapped on, grow a garden.

It is easier to hold on to a dream than it is to let it go.

Even a goat got to be a goat." Esperança's comments about slaves during the triangular slave trade.

All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable.

Love and kindness are a kind of gun that we can use to change everyone without hurting anyone.

When in doubt, go the scandalous route.

Girls have a tendency to take responsibility for romantic misinterpretations, when often it's men whose perfectly honed emotional inscrutability makes life more complicated than it should be.

Ideas are the root of creation.

Writers - we're a little crazy about how much we care about it. We spend a lot of time fussing. At least, I do.

Science-fiction ... can be defined as: Imaginative extrapolation of true natural phenomena, existing now, or likely to exist in the future.

Many people on the street recognize me and are so positive...I am extremely passionate about helping others get healthy and I never feel bothered when fans stop and want to talk.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

I want to make smart choices.