Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

Those who deserve respect are given it freely. If one must demand such a thing, he'll never truly command it.

Do you realise how much trouble you're in?" "Perhaps I'll have some Weetabix after all.

Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

When you need to make a decision, don't let your emotions vote.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.

Rather than ask, What is the attitude of a work to the relations of production of its time? I should like to ask, What is its position in them.

What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.