I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.

If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough.

As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet.

As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money.

I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it.