When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

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.

Talk uses up ideas. ... Once I have spoken them aloud they are lost to me dissipated into the noisy air like smoke. Only if I bury them like bulbs in the rich soil of silence do they grow.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

Be thankful for all your blessings. An appreciative person makes a pleasant and optimistic person.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

I am I and you are you, whatever we were to each other that we still are.

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are.

There's going to be a new gem in Hollywood, it's called Agron

Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.

I think because I write so many short stories, it's not that hard to come up with characters that are not me.

This war in Iraq is part of a larger effort to remove this terrorist threat from the planet.