If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

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.

God is a spirit. The spirit dwells in a body.

If you're loving and kind then you have no need to seek love because love will seek you.

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.

Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great.

I am genuinely an Independent. I agree more often than not with Democrats on domestic policy. I agree more often than not with Republicans on foreign and defense policy. I'm an Independent.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.

Gardening is a humbling experience.

I stand by my work on behalf of the citizens of Spokane to further justice and promote civilian oversight of law enforcement.

You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.