We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.

When we look out into space, we are looking into our own origins, because we are truly children of the stars.

You dig deeper and it gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it's tricky and it's hard, but... It is beautiful.

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

In science, there are no universal truths, just views of the world that have yet to be shown to be false.

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Skepticism must go hand in hand with rationality. When theories are shown to be false, the correct thing to do is to move on.

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

When you fall into a black hole you will be literally spaghettified.

Losing your job sets you free from the controlling mandate of your work

Conformity runs rampant through everyday life, and people want to read about characters that deviate from societal norms.

…nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I am a big theater fan. It's mostly just being pretentious, I think, and trying to look smart.

The coming and going of birth and death is a painting. Unsurpassed enlightenment is a painting. The entire phenomenal universe and the empty sky are nothing but a painting.

Do the dead frighten you?

I would love to go to Iran. The island of Madagascar, everyone says is pretty exotic, or the wonderful Namibian desert.

You have to understand as a marketer that consumers are functioning in the age of efficiency.