I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

There is so much more information about the scientific world than there was a generation ago that we have all increased our opportunities for ignorance. There are more things not to know. ... The machinery that we deal with is so much more complex that it is possible to become dysfunctional at a much higher level of performance.

She goes in with a prejudice and comes out with a statistic.

You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.

I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.