Maybe I did hurt him, but I don’t think I could have hurt him much. He was one of the best-protected human beings who ever lives. People couldn’t get at him because he just wasn’t interested in people.

I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific.

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...

I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.