I am still the same person doing the same science. Why are people so impressed when some academy in Sweden gives an award?

People go into science out of curiosity, not to win awards. But scientists are human and have ambitions.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

So many love affairs doesn't survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

There is no such thing as a long piece of work except one that you dare not start.

Mitt Romney is saying his comments about liking to fire people were taken out of context. Yeah, what he actually said was he likes to set poor people on fire.

To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find a new world.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Godzilla. The big, green G-man has had a profound influence on my creative endeavors and imagination since I was blueberry-avoiding kid.

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

Seve was one of the most talented and exciting golfers to ever play the game. His creativity and inventiveness on the golf course may never be surpassed. His death came much too soon.