We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood.

I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing "Give My Regards to Broadway".

Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

[O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.

The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know.

A neat and orderly laboratory is unlikely. It is, after all, so much a place of false starts and multiple attempts.