Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles.

How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.

Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

From a chemist's point of view, the surface or interior of a star…is boring—there are no molecules there.

It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruction.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.

Arms control has to have a future, or none of us does. But it doesn't necessarily have to come in big packages of 600-page treaties.

The problem with books is that they end.

The only doors that open are the ones you knock on.

Everybody wants their own little place in the world. And maybe mine is here… Loving you from a distance…

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington.

I thought of the pillowcases as a symbol of love and loss, of retaining the memory of your loved one.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

Writers end up writing stories-or rather, stories' shadows-and they're grateful if they can, but it is not enough. Nothing the writer can do is ever enough

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

Divide responsibility and nobody is responsible.