You can model experiments on computers now and then execute them, and you don't actually need a fully stocked lab.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

It's just that I've learned that somebody's appearance doesn't always match what's going on inside him. You can't look at a guy's face and see his demons.

I don't really give much thought to the roles that I'd ideally love to play.

It's hard to look at [Donald] Trump as a hopeful sign because, in his own way, he is offering false solutions to many problems.

Nobody should underestimate how much the world changed on the 11th of September 2001.

Great art is cathartic; it is always moral.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

The more chaos there is, the more science holds on to abstract systems of control, and the more chaos is engendered.