To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000.

All kids are born geniuses, but are crushed by society.

What is the universe? The universe is a symphony of vibrating strings...we are nothing but melodies. We are nothing but cosmic music played out on vibrating strings and membranes.

The human brain has 100 billion neurons, each neuron connected to 10 thousand other neurons. Sitting on your shoulders is the most complicated object in the known universe.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

It's pointless to have a nice clean desk, because it means you're not doing anything.

Music is the voice of God traveling through ten-dimensional hyperspace.

What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.

Common sense has no place in Quantum Mechanics.

I believe we exist in a multiverse of universes.

We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again

It is inevitable that I will leave a legacy simply because I cannot walk through life without leaving footprints as I walk. Therefore, I would be wise to consider the path before I make the prints.

A pen that has clocked up a million words, a lifetime’s memories, is worth more than the centrepiece in a jeweller’s window.

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

A scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

The dreams of human beings are dark, heavy and morbid and simplistic and boring. The dreams of immortality are endless and shining, they shimmer, they glow.

It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.