Quotes About Curiosity

I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.

It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

I was doing 'Homeland' and read the first two episodes, and all I wanted was episode three to know what would happen next.

I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.

I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.

I was so hooked to 'The Da Vinci Code' that I jumped out of bed at 2 A. M., and could only go back to sleep after I'd finished the final few chapters.

I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.

I hope that we continue with exploration.

Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

You try all kinds of things when you are young and hopeful.

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

I don't feel like a hero - just another person involved in the space business. I'm hoping to encourage young folks to become explorers.

I'm very open to following the stories that move me and reach that flexibility where you can be more flexible. I'm expanding my horizons.

I've always wanted to broaden my horizons.

Even as a kid, I would always imagine horrible circumstances in which I would find myself in my head, and imagine how I would feel, and act it out a bit for myself, because I was a bit of a freak like that. I love doing things like that, and I get a real buzz from it afterwards.

There's something about trying to figure out why someone is doing something that on the outside is horrible - what drives them to do that? What could drive any human being to that kind of behaviour?

I joke, but I'm sort of serious: I've always wanted to get into a fight. I know that sounds horrible, but I always had the desire to see what it's like.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

My relationship to 'Rocky Horror' probably started when I was younger than my parents would like me to admit.

I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.

I'm actually a fan of horror films.

When I was a kid, I loved horror films. I used to stay up on Saturday night to watch.

When I was a little kid, I loved horror films. I always liked being scared.