My second novel, "Good Benito", was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways. To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Everyone shares the same fate.

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

The sacred-souls of authors are displayed in the beauty of their books.

The moment you make the internal changes necessary to obtain your goal, the outside world changes instantly.

Most journeys have a clear beginning, but on some the ending is less well-defined. The question is, at what point do you bite your lip and head for home?

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

The public business must be carried on with a certain motion, neither too quick nor too slow.

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

Without Self-confidence there cannot be God. So, first there must be Self-confidence and love of God.