If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice.

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are.

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einstein. The other is that revenge is a bad idea. Revenge is an enormously popular idea but, of course, Jesus came along with the radical idea of forgiveness. If you're insulted, you have to square accounts. So this invention by Jesus is as radical as Einstein's.

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that.