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

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.

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.

Love as much as you can, for as long as you can, and as best as you can.

Don’t stay with someone who drives you crazy. Find someone who keeps you sane.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

Anna Wintour is the most powerful woman in the global fashion industry, the first lady of fashion. She's a politician; I'm a stylist. They are two very different jobs.

Gamsters and race-horses never last long.

It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.

What humanity abhors, custom reconciles and recommends to us.

So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer.

I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual.

A favorite cast? Lisa Kudrow, Anthony Hopkins, Gene Hackman, Morgan Freeman, and my wife.