"I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger."

"Don't ever rope me in as a late-night talk show host. I don't want to be one."

"I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost."

"I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'"

"Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the essence of humanity is our ability to connect."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"I used to think information was destroyed in black hole. This was my biggest blunder, or at least my biggest blunder in science."