Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

To be a hero is to become a paradox. The very act of wanting to be a hero implies that you wish danger upon others, for one cannot be a hero with needing someone to save.

She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?

Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.

Nothing will do me any good unless I learn to control this body of mine.

Scientists have theorized that when Earth comes to its final days, the only life left on the planet would be in the form of microbes.

Fear only goes where it's invited to stay.

I come from the place of thinking, 'Whatever works for people' - and if you haven't been exposed to anything else, you really don't know better.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

The pop world has really opened its doors.

Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.