By the help of microscopes, there is nothing so small, as to escape our inquiry; hence there is a new visible world discovered to the understanding.

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon.

Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.

Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive

I’ve got to stop looking at you, like you light my world. You’re the dark cloud which brings the rain. You’re the hurricane which destroys my peace. You are not the sun. I am my own light.

Mundane, boring stories--not interesting ones--are the ideal in an operating room.

I keep hearing I'm a crazy party guy... I'm not. I'm boring... At least by party standards.

In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

I really fancy Eddie Redmayne. I wouldn't mind a few steamy scenes with him.

This duo inside of me causes the perfect opportunity to live and learn twice as fast as those who choose to accept simplicity.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.