Stress can alter the expression of genes, which can affect the response to stress and so on. Human behavior is therefore unpredictable in the short term, but broadly predictable in the long term.

TP53 seems to encode the greater good, like a suicide pill in the mouth of a soldier that dissolves only when it detects evidence that he is about to mutiny.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

An idle mind doesn't do justice to its potential

You'd be surprised how many childhoods each of us has.

Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds. Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence: the mind becomes still. A portal is opening up.

I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage.

She's so fat, she's my two best friends.

I believe that the physical is the geography of the being.

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.

People see truth in my films. That's what they react to, and that's what they relate to.