All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You've got to find it on your own terms.

When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.

If you're asking me to acknowledge that I've gotten older, I can do that.

You get a sense of reference there. You feel part of something that's got order and balance and harmony to it. All the distraction and noise, all the confusion of misplaced, misdirected energy just don't happen there.

We have been led to believe that we have come a long way toward world nuclear disarmament. But that is not the case. Our government is not doing all that it could. We must urge our leaders to fulfill the obligations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The United States must assume world leadership to end once and for all the threat of nuclear war. It is our moral responsibility.

I was one of the few people who thought Star Wars was going to work, and I hadn't even seen any special effects.

I've always wanted to be bald. I mean it, completely bald. Wouldn't it be great to be bald in the rain?