"You have no talent. You are like a Chinese food delivery guy without Chinese food."

"Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious, and however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."

"Meeting an advanced civilization could be like Native Americans encountering Columbus. That didn't turn out so well."

"There are no black holes in the sense of a region of spacetime from which nothing can escape. Instead, there are apparent horizons which persist for a time and then vanish."

"The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities."