"I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."

“You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.”

“Not all of my songs are electronic, they're not house or dancey.”

Source : "Toro Y Moi Talks New Album, Underneath the Pine". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 23, 2010.

“Well Washington DC what are you going to do. They think the capitol steps are the state of the art in comedy. You try to drag them into the 20th century let alone the 21st and they refuse to come with you.”

“the 'size' of science has doubled steadily every 15 years. In a century this means a factor of 100. For every single scientific paper or for every single scientist in 1670, there were 100 in 1770, 10,000 in 1870 and 1,000,000 in 1970.”

Source : "The Force of Knowledge: The Scientific Dimension of Society". Book by John Ziman, p. 56-57, 1976.

“People are starting to go on about my weight but I'm not going to change my size because they don't like the way I look.”

“Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man.”

“The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2009). “Galileo's Dream”, p.456, Spectra

“You get older and you see yourself and say, 'God, he's old, who's that?'”