We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

In the 1950s in Columbia, South Carolina, it was considered OK for kids to play with weird things. We could go to the hardware store and buy 100 feet of dynamite fuse.

Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.

Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.

People don't realize that molecules themselves are somewhat hypothetical, and that their interactions are more so, and that the biological reactions are even more so.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.

A challenge is always important; as an actor, as a human, it's good to face challenges and it's good to push your boundaries.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

The noble man is only God's image.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

You get so used to lying that after a while it's hard to remember what the truth is.

Ill news are swallow-winged, but what is good walks on crutches.