If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.

It's a pity that nobody has found an exploding black hole. If they had, I would have won a Nobel prize.

If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

Some forms of motor neuron disease are genetically linked, but I have no indication that my kind is. No other member of my family has had it. But I would be in favour of abortion if there was a high risk.

So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator?