The most important discoveries will provide answers to questions that we do not yet know how to ask and will concern objects we have not yet imagined.

We should do astronomy because it is beautiful and because it is fun. We should do it because people want to know. We want to know our place in the universe and how things happen.

Every time we get slapped down, we can say, Thank you Mother Nature, because it means we're about to learn something important.

Customs change with time, so it isn't fair to permit change only when you happen to approve of it but condemn change citing biblical authority when you don't.

The mighty Mahmúd, Allah-breathing Lord, That all the misbelieving and black HordeOf Fears and Sorrows that infest the SoulScatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.

Accept who you are. Don’t leave me, Willow. We are all broken, that’s how the light shines through. - Rhydian

A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

I don't keep anything on paper (except within an actual novel in progress, at which point I need a file to keep track of plot threads, characters, and so on).

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.