After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

Life would be indeed easier if the experimentalists would only pause for a little while!

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.

My education at Baron Byng High School was excellent, with dedicated masters (boys and girls were separate).

After some minor pieces of theoretical study that I worked on, a student in my statistical mechanics class brought to my attention a problem in polyelectrolytes.

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on a particular problem.

I have always loved going to school.

Giver of life, the Holy God.

Never blame anyone in life. The good people give you happiness. The worst people give you a lesson. The best people give you memories.

Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.

Sleep - death without dying - living, but not life.

Don't be afraid to take bad pictures, because good pictures are the mistakes of bad pictures.

The key to not getting rejected if you're writing for a magazine, is to know to read that magazine and know everything about them before you ever make a submission.

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants.

Compassion is very important, especially right now in America. We all need to strive as human beings to understand each other and ourselves better.

I'm amazed that movies ever get finished at all - much less come out good once in a while. It's an awful lot of work and it can go wrong a thousand different ways.

Inside every believe, there's a lie.