I grew up in environment that had more women in science.

Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

Dark matter is everywhere. In this room. Everywhere.

The top quark was discovered in 1995 and since then the Higgs has become an because the standard model was incomplete with out it.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

In the absence of organized religion, faith abounds, in the form of song and art and food and strong arms.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.

It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

Wherever your gift is, that's where it's going to be your greatest challenge.

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu, Lizzie, our "O," had some homework to do, Mitchell, "E" prob'ly got lost on the way, So I'm all of the love that could make it today.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

Great and terrible systems of divinity and philosophy lie round about us, which, if true, might drive a wise man mad.

The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that won't believe. The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbeliever's fright.