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“For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.”
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“You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
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“Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first.”
Source : "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013. 
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“Influence is the key word in any definition of leadership.”
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“Black holes are very exotic objects. Technically, a black hole puts a huge amount of mass inside of zero volume. So our understanding of the center of black holes doesn't make sense, which is a big clue to physicists that we don't have our physics quite right.”
Source : "Galactic Explorer Andrea Ghez". NOVAInterview, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2006.
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“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
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“Problems assault us to the degree they preoccupy us. The key to release, rest, and inner freedom is not the elimination of all external difficulties. It is letting go of our pattern of reactions to those difficulties.”
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“One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.”
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“Feminists wish women to seem like men. They're not men.”
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“If one harbors anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, though in a sense known to be true, are inadmissable.”
