Could we possible manage the next phase of human history without first dealing with this penchant for dehumanizing the adversary?

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.

Sometimes you literally need some pressure on your shoulder, to fetch the best in you...

Lucy woke with the munchies the night the kidnappers came for her.

I think giving is a blind act that should come from a part of me that sees no discrimination (that's why I called it "blind").

I am simply a human being who is fascinated by the life process.

If skills sold truth be told I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli Truthfully I want to rhyme like Common Sense (But I did five Mil) I ain't been rhyming like Common since.

There's no such thing as enough.

It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.

Let us return to 'no'. It has the charm of brevity.

Gimmicks come and go; the cop show seems one genre that will never leave - not as long as people like to sit at home in the suburbs and see what awful things go on in the cities.

I suppose I'm just an old soul.