People like to think the worst. They like to have hushed gossip sessions and point their fingers at someone's problems that are more obvious than their own.

It's amazing how easy the truth is to accept...No matter how strange.

Once chosen, forever chosen.

Affect the main character or characters and you win the game.

I like animals. I like natural history. The travel bit is not the important bit. The travel bit is what you have to do in order to go and look at animals.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I understand very well that politicians always have to bridge the gap until the next election, even if long-term dangers increase as a result. But as an economist, my time horizon is longer.

Its all about your determination, I think, as much as anything. There are a lot of people with talent, but its that determination.

I think every woman goes through a relationship where she is with a guy that is really not right for her. You get lost in it.

I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.