You're insane!" "I won't argue that point.

A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.

We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us.

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business.