I knew how many zeroes there were in a quintillion, but I thought that algebra lived in ponds.

Fear distorts the world. Fear sees demons where only shadows dwell.

Even very low-probability events can, and indeed do, occur.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

Funerals aren't for the dead. They're for the living.

Sometimes words aren't needed.

The man who'll lay the last stone here isn't even born yet.

All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

I love theatre, and you learn too much as an actor and enjoy too much of it not to want to go back a lot.

Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

I don't stay in the genre because I just like all stories that have a smart hook in them and I can find a comic way through if it's a comedy or a suspenseful way through it if it's a drama.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.

All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.