Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

We'd like to make it [bucky fiber] in a continuous fiber, roll it on a drum, and go fishing with it.

If it ain't tubes, we don't do it.

Be a scientist, save the world.

I know that you always take around because you talk so much, but I like to always know what's happening in your world.

In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic.

My dad was a great dad.

The Microbe is so very small You cannot make him out at all, But many sanguine people hope To see him through a microscope.

Islam is against killing, terrorism, and murder. People who commit these acts in the name of Islam are wrong. And if I had a chance I would do something about it.

[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

Guns require a finger to pull the trigger.

Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know.