You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

In the animal world individuals cheat, as do we.

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.

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

There is no fool like an educated fool.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.