Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.

In your cells right now, an enzyme is making a copy of your dna in less than two hours, right in the nucleus.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

The best wins or looses in life are those that leave you with a newer vision onto life.

Bible texts are best read with a pair of glasses made out of today's newspaper.

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.

The secret of creating anything new in your life consists of creating new commitments and then holding the tiller to your new course until it becomes established as a behavior.

I never mixed with golfers when I was playing, mainly because I didn't want to talk golf all night.

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

That there is an evolution of one sort or another is now common ground among scientists. Whether or not that evolution is directed is another question.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or my experiences. I'm very detailed - it's like a script.