I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

Such is the prestige of the Nobel Award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to speak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practised it through the ages.

War ... a reversal of the rules where a man is permitted to kill all the humans he can.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

I remember as a child reading or hearing the words 'The Great Divide' and being stunned by the glorious sound, a proper sound for the granite backbone of a continent. I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China.

An ocean without unnamed monsters would be like sleep without dreams.