"There was a moment in the early '80s when I wanted to work on films and wanted to live in L.A."

"It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people."

"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."

"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."

"Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it."

"Down the road a bit, I would like to write a couple of stand-alone adult novels, especially in the horror genre. I've got lots of things up my sleeve."

"For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel."

"The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation."