But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.

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.

I apologise, your Highness. Murder can be a painful business.

Geniuses don't become geniuses until they find the right moron to compare themselves to.

I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and free of ambiguity. Whereas poetry is actually the home of ambiguity, ambivalence and uncertainty.

In my work, I explore my own Catholic obsessions.

I happen to be a huge 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I do an annual marathon of the extended editions.

There will be a change in worldview from materialism and failure to conscious evolution. And everyone's potential to participate!

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster and with more energy!

At home, the radio was a big source and the classic radio programs we would listen to like Amos and Andy and whatever other ones there were.