Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

The Nobel Prize is fine, but the drugs I've developed are rewards in themselves.

I had no specific bent towards science until my grandfather, who died - that summer - of stomach cancer. ... I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

That was the turning point. It was as though the signal was there, 'This is the disease you're going to have to work against.' I never really stopped to think about anything else. It was that sudden.

Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of stomach cancer. I decided that nobody should suffer that much.

I had no specific bent toward science until my grandfather died of cancer. I decided nobody should suffer that much.

A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.

The inexorable boredom that is at the core of life.

Comparisons are odious.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.

Well, I'm not going to be singing about lollipops because I no longer relate to lollipops.

If you want to do something evil, put it inside something boring.

Rock n Roll is music from the neck down.

I look up to my mom. She's a beautiful woman.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.