To a good approximation, all species are insects.

We share half our genes with the banana.

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.

Censorship defeats the right to self determination.

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.

I'm not a great believer in the power of the moving image. A still image has greater lasting power.

I'm quite grateful to the BBC. They helped me back onto the touring circuit.

An innocent man, if accused, can be acquitted; a guilty man, unless accused, cannot be condemned. It is, however, more advantageous to absolve an innocent than not to prosecute a guilty man.

You can wear ruffles; you can be a jock, and you can still be a great computer scientist, or a great technologist, or a great product designer.

Raise your words, not your voice.