A lot of science started off as magic, where people were burned at the stake for doing science basically.

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

There's a lot of magic in science, so to speak.

You could be a music prodigy at age 4, like Mozart, but you can't be a writing prodigy.

I think it was Fran Lebowitz who said that there are no writing prodigies. You have to have something to write about.

There always seemed to be a place for God and, to me, it seemed like God was a place in the unknown side of the ledger.

When I was a kid, I was very much interested in magic and science. They fueled interest in one another.