I grew up in California. I was outside of the city, not directly in it. So I did have an experience of the sky, but for me, it was the idea of space exploration that fueled my interest. I grew up in that age of the astronauts, and I was fascinated that we could leave the Earth.

You go, dark energy! Go on, dark matter. They don't understand you, dark matter. They don't get you.

You know that sadness and rage you feel about your money? That's the way some of us feel about people.

It seems that there's a constant humbling - I don't know if that's the right word - because things are disproved all the time with new discoveries, at least that's the way it feels sometimes in the layman's world. Like, people will make proclamations of something to be true, and then 50 years later that's proven wrong because there's something else.

It almost seems like God is transforming into just a strictly spiritual advisor, a personal-transformation type of figure more than an explainer of the world, you know?

Even though you're in charge you're not completely in ownership. You know, the audience takes a huge ownership of your show.

I love writing family stories.