And when a man that old takes up money-hunting, it's like when he takes up gambling or whisky or women. He aint going to have time to quit.

Who owned no property and never desired to since the earth was no man's but all men's, as light and air and weather were.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

Because the silence is exhausting and isolating in a way it needn't be.

If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.

When I come home, it's about my kid, who needs to eat, needs to do homework, and needs to get to basketball. I don't have a lot of time to think about me.

Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science.

I used to work at a puppy nursery.

There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.

I think the story only really comes alive on the set.

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

Let's go invent tomorrow...