The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

Anything is possible with laughter. If you can laugh out loud, especially at a life of mistakes, you will come out unscathed.

I always come here when I can't sleep [. . .] every night.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.

I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

The president hasn't come after me yet, but we've had other people come after me!

In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment.

You cease totally and only then you arrive. You enter into the world of God, or godliness, only when you are no more.

A word refers to something in the real world and so, in a way, does a photo. It's not the thing itself, but it's a kind of suggestion of where you might look for that thing.