Breakfast - which I didn't mind skipping; if the eggs had been any runnier and the bacon a little less fatty, I could have raced them against each other around my plate.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides the job is taken.

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census', and people fall asleep.

Never, under any circumstances, let the Virginian wolfsnake near a typewriter.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

It is becoming increasingly clear that the targets in the Kyoto Protocol cannot and will not be met on the established timetable in the United States and elsewhere.

I see my writing happening more naturally. Just to relax into it and capture all of the good stuff in a calm and connected fashion.

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

I do like to make films with a political theme, but sometimes it's nice simply to make people laugh. That's the hardest thing to do in fact.