Our family was very fond of the University of Iowa. We thought it was a good place to go.

Certainly one of the most enthralling things about human life is the recognition that we live in what, for practical purposes, is a universe without bounds.

I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it.

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working.

I'm one of the most durable and fervent advocates of space exploration, but my take is that we could do it robotically at far less cost and far greater quantity and quality of results.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Stress builds character and failure breeds motivation. I guess I'm a Optimist.

Cheese is milk's leap towards immortality.

Had you the world on your Chesse-bord, you could not fill all to your mind.

Anybody can do anything that he imagines.

My first love was reading, which inspired me to write.

A lot of things are yours, America

If laws acting upon private interests can not always be avoided, they should be confined within the narrowest limits, and left wherever possible to the legislatures of the States.

The Patriot Act is the most egregious piece of legislation to ever leave Congress since the Alien and Sedition Acts, John Ashcroft and every member of Congress who voted for it should be indicted.

Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity .

The hip-hop that we grew up on is dead to a certain degree. I'm trying to keep it alive though, it's alive in the underground, but don't nobody know about it.