In my life I have found two things of priceless worth - learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say 'I have learned' and 'I have loved,' you will also be able to say 'I have been happy.

There is no reason to assume that the universe has the slightest interest in intelligence—or even in life. Both may be random accidental by-products of its operations like the beautiful patterns on a butterfly's wings. The insect would fly just as well without them.

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of omnipotence; their experiments did not always succeed.

My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'.

Good morning, doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive.

I'm quite fond of the writer who told a beginning author, "If you've got a message, use Western Union."