Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice.

Sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped, you know?

If you listen to critics for too long, you will become deaf to success.

Most people — however much they might deny it — had an idea of what they were getting into when they got into it.

Anyone who votes for McGowan is 100 percent right. He was a great umpire. He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.

The more qi-full you are, the more cheerful you are.

I would say I'm pro-choice only because I don't feel that it's right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.

A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.