“There are no happy endings because nothing ever ends.”

"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story."

"Every organization needs a designated asshole. That is my gift to the Killjoy collective. The asshole may not be liked, but he will always be necessary, because he does what's needed."

"You never get anywhere by arguing religion with a priest."

"Fortunately when you spend a lot of time in space, you learn how to shit in a bag."

"Travel really can upset ones routines. But then, isn't that rather the point?"

"Sometimes I wish other people would just tell me how to think. Tell me what to believe."

"It seemed better that there be no God than a God that I could only hate."

"That's all we really are in this universe. Monkeys with a space program."

Technically we are apes with a space program. -- Ed.

"It was the funny business you didn't expect that always got you in the end."

"Isn't that just the question? Having built something significantly smarter than myself, how could I possibly anticipate its evolution?"

"When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive."

"Vengeance doesn't relieve you of pain like you think it should. Instead it twists your heart with bitterness."

"Sounding confident about a thing doesn't make it true."

"Humanty had gone to the stars. That hadn't eradicated poverty, overpopulation and sloth."

"The odds of there being at least one form of intellegent life outside Earth somewhere in the observable universe, are higher than your odds of winning the lottery."

"In science, we want to get the same results many times, in order to believe them."

"You have to know what skeletons are in peoples closets before you can use them against them "

"Bibles have a bad effect on weak-minded people. And churches act like echo chambers on psychotics."

"We find out the truth because we don't have any choice. Nothing else works, empirically"

"So he would be forced to survive. Because this hypocritical society insisted at this level that life was sacred."

"The absence of noise and people seemed less unnerving out in the countryside."

"It was nice to think that mankind made a distinction between blowing their planet to bits by accident or doing it by design."

Comment on the likelihood of an accidental nuclear weapons launch.

"The people who scared people always won. They always win."

"Life you may evade, but death you shall not."

"I like your Christ. It's your Christians that I find difficult."

"What if the cost of machines that think is people who don't?"