When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen.

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.

We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

Success is little more than a chemical compound of man with moment.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question.

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

I've been acting for a while, but theater is pretty different. I've never been in a play.

Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death

The Actor should make you forget the existence of author and director, and even forget the actor.

This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.