Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

Serve one another with great humility.

New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.

That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant Capital Ship.

There are a lot of people that never get their stories told.

I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.

I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.

In these words lies all his power: He chose the path along which he is walking and so has no complaints.

It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.