How folks lay claim to a loved one is they give you a name of their own. They figure to label you as their property.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

Nothing happened, and nothing kept happening.

You realize that there's no point in doing anything if nobody's watching. You wonder, if there had been a low turnout at the crucifixion, would they have rescheduled?

I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.