You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.

I'm not politically correct.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.

There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.

I'm really optimistic in the mornings.

Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes.