I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

There is a moment of conception and a moment of birth, but between them there is a long period of gestation.

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.

Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else.

I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

If all insects disappeared, all life on earth would perish. If all humans disappeared, all life on earth would flourish.

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.