A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now that's a question.

Be proud of your mistakes. Well, proud may not be exactly the right word, but respect them, treasure them, be kind to them, learn from them. And, more than that, and more important than that, make them. Make mistakes. Make great mistakes, make wonderful mistakes, make glorious mistakes. Better to make a hundred mistakes than to stare at a blank piece of paper too scared to do anything wrong.

When you love something you just don't want to stop talking about it.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

I found English to be a sort of Thomas Hardy aversion therapy.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.