God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

Mother, who has an absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.

If I can't feel, if I can't move, if I can't think, and I can't care, then what conceivable point is there in living?

Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were.

It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered. That damage done to oneself and others cannot always be put right again.

One of the advantages of science is that one's work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not.

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

Death and madness are his only mistresses.

I've always craved winning. It's just easier in sports because there's a scoreboard.

Think first. Talk less. Start today.

I feel like the worst fashion moments of the '90s were kind of the best.

Until Scrubs, I didnt have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.

I'm just a natural flirt, but I don't see it in a sexual way. A lot of the time I'm like an overexcited puppy.

If you truly expect something to be difficult, it will be.

The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.

I am better at math than spelling.