Every single morning I wake with a bang,' he said. 'It's as though the fact that I am alive is injected into me; I am a character in a fairytale, bursting with life.

Moreover, nature's blocks had to be eternal-because nothing can come from nothing.

There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.