“Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.”

“If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.”

“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of your food, your closet full of your clothes -- with all this taken away, you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”

“Discovery, they believe, is inevitable. So they just try to do it first. That's the game in science.”

“We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so.”

“He did not want an affair with his boss. He did not even want a one-night stand. Because what always happened was that people found out, gossip at the water cooler, meaningful looks in the hallway. And sooner or later the spouses found out. It always happened. Slammed doors, divorce lawyers, child custody.”

“They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.”