Science. They were all the science experiments of a maniacal government bent on controlling the universe.

Dying was never as hard as having to live again.

I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.

On the off-chance you won't live forever, maybe you should try being happy now.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action.

Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious: both are disappointed.

I don't mind not being cool.

I am responsible for managing more schoolteachers' and firemen's money than anybody in the world. That's an enormous responsibility.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.