In 1995, I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

My father was a stone mason, and a talented amateur pianist and vocalist.

I was a keen sportsman, and became school captain in soccer and cricket.

In 1960, I went to St. Catherine's College, Oxford, and received the B.A. degree in Chemistry in 1964.

Guilt loves the passive.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated it will achieve the mastery ... faith is the stronger emotion because it is positive whereas fear is negative.

I don't get any parts I don't get offered. There are lots of great things out there I would like to do that I don't get offered.

I love my cats more than I love most people. Probably more than is healthy.

There is an ugliness in being paid for work one does not like.

You have to live the mission... love what you do.

As to blood—ah, blood, the whole subject fascinates me. I do like that as well, warm and dripping, when I am thirsty. And I am often thirsty.

The future holds a golden world. It will be for beauty; it will be for intelligent productiveness.

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce