I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

People are different from each other

What I am proudest of is having a life where work and love are impossible to tell apart.

If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles.

Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I’m in better shape than they are.

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

Worrying is the most natural and spontaneous of all human functions. It is time to acknowledge this perhaps even to learn to do it better.

American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.

Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.

The spider is an animal who eats mosquitoes. That's why I love the spider - it is the only way we have to deal with these insects.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

Sometimes I work on film sets. I've done this for 40 years. I always wanted to photograph on the set of an Ingmar Bergman film. Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.