It is the lone worker who makes the first advance in a subject: the details may be worked out by a team, but the prime idea is due to the enterprise, thought, and perception of an individual.

The unprepared mind cannot see the outstretched hand of opportunity.

Penicillin cures, but wine makes people happy.

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

(The discovery of penicillin) was a triumph of accident, a fortunate occurrence which happened while I was working on a purely academic bacteriological problem.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

Penicillin sat on a shelf for ten years while I was called a quack.

If penicillin can cure those that are ill, Spanish sherry can bring the dead back to life.

Live alone if staying together seems lifeless

Art imitates life, but science fiction informs us about what form it will take.

Our listeners asked us:"What is chaos?"We're answering:"We do not comment on economic policy.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

I know how to make decisions and stand up to the criticism every day.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.