I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been due more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to.

I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.