I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'

The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers.

Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!