UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

No one can hurt you except you give them the power to do so and choose to accept it.

Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.--Ray Bradbury

Damn. It looks to me like I just missed the best reunion since Sherman got together with Atlanta.

Human rights protection laws typically come under attack from those who made these laws necessary to begin with.

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God.

I don't like people who drink decaf coffee it's like what. Why you drinking it? Like it taste so good? That's like drinking non alcoholic vodka.

In some ways, you're always redefining your craft and figuring it out, but in some ways, I almost feel I'm going back to what I was doing 20 years ago.

What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.

In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.