One of the things I like about doing science, the thing that is the most fun, is coming up with something that seems ridiculous when you first hear it but finally seems obvious when you're finished.

In the end, a theory is accepted not because it is confirmed by conventional empirical tests, but because researchers persuade one another that the theory is correct and relevant.

Markets look a lot less efficient from the banks of the Hudsonthan the banks of the Charles.

In the real world of research, conventional tests of [statistical] significance seem almost worthless.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

I’ve created the most beautiful things out of my sadness.

Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.

I loved doing Baywatch. It was so much fun!

And at the end of the season you can only do as well as what you have done

That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?

If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.

Molly, you are a good person. Don't let anyone take that away from you. Not even yourself.

It is too late if we wait until the moment of temptation before making our decision.

The constructions of language, which is to say the constructions of thought, are formed within experience, not the other way around.