I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.

All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.

Science is not something that exists apart from human beings. It's one of the things we do as human beings, and we always have done science and technology in some form.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Ordinary, said Aunt Lydia, is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.