Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

He thinks things through too much.

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

True freedom is in not having a master, but in making the master your slave

I have no problem spending money on a great meal with friends or a flight to see somebody that I love, versus something like a fancy car. I don't need a fancy car. I don't need a giant TV.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.

If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.

Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

There is a sort of camaraderie that rarely exists except between men who have fought the same enemies and know the same women.

Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.