I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

Hubris and science are incompatible.

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2.10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

We all have a Monster within; the difference is in degree, not in kind.

The wise and good are outnumbered a thousand to one by the brutal and stupid.

My hobbies are mountain biking, horseback riding and packing, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, camping, cooking, and skiing.

There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.

It's a very bad habit, but one I find hard to break.

Retribution is just outstanding.

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

You can not avoid life or your thoughts you can only make the best of your current situation and move on with a positive mental attitude.

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?

Platitude: All that is mortal of a departed truth.

Every State is a dictatorship.

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.

Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.

Real worship involves waiting.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.