To make discoveries, you have to be curious about why the universe is the way it is.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.

So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

There is no fast, easy shortcut for the word abbreviation.

I hope the average woman feels she needs practicality but with a little bit of fantasy. Otherwise it's just not fashion.

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

I think Trent Baretta looks like Ashton Kutcher.

Every four years, I'll watch figure skating, but I'm no closer to buying tights.

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

I would have liked to come back in 300; they did an origins film of 300 just recently, and it would have been fun to come back and see what happened to my character.

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.

Many people who live in the USA feel blessed to live in a free country with many opportunities. For this reason, many try to come to the USA, and few ever wish to leave it.