When I started doing chemistry, I did it the way I fished - for the excitement, the discovery, the adventure, for going after the most elusive catch imaginable in uncharted seas.

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist.

A Supervisor in need of supervision is a useless Supervisor

God has taken you from something in order to you to something.

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

A woman can be sexy, charming, witty or shy with her shoes.

I get emails from strangers every day asking for love advice, which is kind of counter-intuitive since I'm making a movie about what an idiot I am with relationships.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

If ever a painter wrought a miracle of illusion with brush and pigment that painter was Velazquez in his Las Meninas, at the Prado in Madrid.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

It's dangerous, son.' 'What's dangerous?' 'When a man goes outside his house to look for peace.