When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

I'm ensuring my place in heaven.

These places, and the ancient things you know, You won't know soon. I'm working on it now.'

You see the names of places roundabout? They're mine now, and I've turned them inside out.

Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.