The Kerguelen Islands in the southern Indian Ocean are a six-day boat ride from Madagascar, and their only inhabitants are French scientists.

When it comes to scary business, I believe that forewarned is forearmed.

In the Middle Ages, bloodletting was often performed by barbers, which is why the traditional barber’s pole—like the bloody towels that once hung outside barber shops—is colored red and white.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.

I wasn't getting invited to any board meetings. I had to kick the door down.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Love not often, but forever.

It's the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes.

We had a choice between Democrats who couldn't learn from the past and Republicans who couldn't stop living in it.

I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.