There's no verbs before time itself exists, right? There's no popping into existence, there's no fluctuating, there's no quantum mechanical craziness, there is literally nothing.

We are looking for a complete, coherent, and simple understanding of reality. Given what we know about the universe, there seems to be no reason to invoke God as part of this description.

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

There is no such thing as outside the universe, as far as we can tell.

We are not important to the universe. That's the bad news.

God is not described in equations.

All the stuff we've ever seen in the laboratory, all the kinds of particles and matter and energy, that only makes up 5 percent of our universe.

The speed of time is 1 hour per hour, no matter what else is going on in the universe.

We are not significant on the cosmic scale.

Nothing in the fact that there was a first moment in time necessitates that an external something is required to bring the universe about at that moment.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Yes, you may have your cake and eat it too. I will only take the rest of the world along with all the other cakes in it, thank you!

He was making a brave attempt, but Jason could see the sadness lingering in his eyes. Something had happened to him... something to do with Calypso.

Hopelessness is endless, the more you search for it, the more you find it

Astrology, the noblest of sciences.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

I would love John McCain as president.

All the vices, Sancho, bring some kind of pleasure with them; but envy brings nothing but irritation, bitterness, and rage.

Jumpy is the most incredible animal of all time. The movie [Valley of Violence] is the tamest example of what that dog is capable of.

Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win.