Language was such a profoundly new evolutionary innovation that our brains had to be completely redesigned in order to handle it.

When the time comes to change a paradigm--to renounce one bedrock truth and adopt another--the artist and physicist are most likely to be in the forefront.

While their methods differ radically, artists and physicists share the desire to investigate the ways the interlocking pieces of reality fit together. This is the common ground upon which they meet.

Revolutionary art and visionary physics are both investigations into the nature of reality.

It is the bane and the balm of individual perception that 'objective' reality is seen through the filter of each person's temperament.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Praying is the power of much more grace.

I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.

Always be mindful of the kindness and not the faults of others

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Your mind creates your reality. If you expect nothing, you open up the universe to give you options. If you expect the worst, you usually get it.

But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.

Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.

Because unity and friendship is so precious that even God wants to be part of it.