"Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self."

"Philosophy begins in wonder.And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."

"There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

"The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, Seek simplicity and distrust it."

"When I was younger, I had a perm, and it was really big. My mom was a hairdresser, so even my dad had a perm! I looked like a poodle, but it was cool at the time."

"As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time, that doesn't work for me. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh."

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."

"Stories in which the destruction of society occurs are explorations of social fears and issues that filmmakers, novelists, playwrights, painters have been examining for a long time."