Understanding the history of matter and searching for its most interesting forms, such as galaxies, stars, planets and life, seems a suitable use for our intelligence.

Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are.

Science is not a vast encyclopedia, it is a thin flame of reason burning across ample reservoirs of ignorance.

When you read a line that is just so well-written you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute.

I feel like I've gotten whatever was meant to come to me and I feel really blessed.

Love is like a rose, the joy of all the earth.

We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change.

Strength is not energy; some authors have more muscles than talent.

Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.

I will leave an impression.

Washington...has become an alien city-state that rules America, and much of the rest of the world, in the way that Rome ruled the Roman Empire.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

The ought to be a worldwide cultural taskforce that just stops you when you have ideas like combining The Red Desert with an armored car heist movie.