If we watch ourselves honestly we shall often find that we have begun to argue against a new idea even before it has been completely stated.

It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.

Do you think... do you think people ever learn anything?

I learn my world through writing.

I get described as 'interesting' a lot. People often call me odd, too. Maybe they mean ugly. Given the services of a plastic surgeon, I would get a pair of cheekbones.

No matter how grouchy you're feeling, You'll find the smile more or less healing. It grows in a wreath All around the front teeth - Thus preserving the face from congealing.

I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.

I never was much of a game player, but I loved to be on the computer.

Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.

I still sweat. My guts are still grinding out there. Sometimes I have enough cotton in my mouth to knit a sweater.

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.