I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Neutrinos have mass? i didn't even know they're Catholic!" Robert to Vittoria

I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

Is it not possible that we are still living in the Dark Ages, still mocking the suggestion of 'mystical' forces that we cannot see or comprehend.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

As he flushed, an unexpected realization hit him. This is the Pope's toilet, he thought. I just took a leak in the Pope's toilet. He had to chuckle. The Holy Throne.