"I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences."

"I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'"

"Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be."

"Cutting up fowl to predict the future is, if done honestly and with as little interpretation as possible, a kind of randomization. But chicken guts are hard to read and invite flights of fancy or corruption."

"Most of the time it's the role. Sometimes it's the story and sometimes it just the paycheck. It's the little movies that come out as stories or the fact that I have work to go out, you know what I'm saying, you can only be out so long without work, you start getting antsy."

"Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed."

"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."

"Those who have succeeded at anything and don't mention luck are kidding themselves."