I’m always trying to find a way to make the story more interesting, more complex, more layered.

The laws of physics are universal, but our understanding of them is constantly evolving.

So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

"Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is always a sign of folly."