Nature makes penicillin; I just found it.

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.

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 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.

Boundaries are easier to manage when your values are well-defined.

It's only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.

Upon descending our threaded words on the web by a steep and hazardous precipice of readers requires constant review.

In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.

It's a delicious thing to write. To be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating.

I love slow readers. And readers who think about what I've written, think about how it's written - and copy me!

Some people complain that they will not live forever, but cannot think of things to do on a wet Sunday afternoon.

To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.