For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday and he still forgot to bring me something.

Every act of goodness is born from our desire to be happy.

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

We must teach science in the mother tongue. Otherwise, science will become a highbrow activity. It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

Nobody wants to read about a good-looking happy person.

If you can't eat it, can't sleep under it, can't wear it or make something from it, it's not worth anything.

For a second I think about how easy it would be to pass back to the other side, to walk straight into the laboratories and offer myself up to the surgeons. You were right; I was wrong. Get it out.

But the validity of a doctrine does not depend on whose ox it gores.

Fear is what inhibits us moving forward.

As a playwright, you are a torturer of actors and of the audience as well. You inflict things on people.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.