During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.

I participated on debating teams and in student government, and served as senior class president.

The experience reminds me of a favorite saying: Most of the yield from research efforts comes from the coal that is mined while looking for diamonds.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

In marked contrast to the University of Wisconsin, Biochemistry was hardly visible at Stanford in 1945, consisting of only two professors in the chemistry department.

Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak.

The excitement of vitamins, nutrition and metabolism permeated the environment.

A painstaking course in qualitative and quantitative analysis by John Wing gave me an appreciation of the need for, and beauty of, accurate measurement.

I am told that I had a bad temper, and remember being banished to the back hall until civility returned.

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

Abused patience turns to fury.

My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I don't approach fashion; fashion approaches me!

Know your true measurements and dress your mind accordingly

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

I cannot stand authority.

I feared disappointing my father more than anything in the world.

The good thing about my fans is that they like when I'm awkward and real, so I'm able to just go on stage and be my dorky self.