The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you're not going to hire them.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged.

I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

The ever quickening advances of science made possible by the success of the Human Genome Project will also soon let us see the essences of mental disease. Only after we understand them at the genetic level can we rationally seek out appropriate therapies for such illnesses as schizophrenia and bipolar disease.

As an educator, I have always striven to see that the fruits of the American Dream are available to all.