I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries.

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

Our nation is turning into an idiocracy.

We are in the universe and the universe is in us.

If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

The past is another planet.