The radical novelty of modern science lies precisely in the rejection of the belief... that the forces which move the stars and atoms are contingent upon the preferences of the human heart.

I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads.

Only two things are infinite the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former.

I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

The sad part about our past is that religions ironically enough are responsible for creating the most destructive idea that has ever been visited upon the human race: the idea that there is such a thing as 'better.'

Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves but it's there if you look deep.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives and more romantic and not necessarily of their own experiences.

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity part of his nation part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.