Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Socialism works ... [and] Cuba might prove that. I think it's conclusive that there have been areas where socialism has helped to keep people at least stabilized at a certain level.

I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.

It is always understood as an expression of condemnation when anything in Literature or Art is said to be done for effect; and yet to produce an effect is the aim and end of both.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise.

No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - Toni

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

I like to download as many apps as I can - especially the ones with games and gadgets.

The only thing that can kill me is death, that's the only thing that can ever stop me, is death, and even then my music will live forever.