We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.

When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.

You can do more science on the ground than you can in space for the same amount of money. But there is some science you can not do on the ground.

I was a science fiction geek. That lets you know that they come in all sizes and styles, right?

The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know.

I've started a company, called Tall Girl Productions, and we've got our first project that is purely producing, not writing, with a writer named Evan Daugherty. It's for NBC, it's called 'Afterthought,' and it's science fiction-ish. That's fun.