If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

Falling in love with landscapes is what L.A. women do. It doesn't necessarily imply betrothal or marriage.

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

I have a great ability to improvise verbally, and I am very funny on a dime.

The beauty of science is to imagine more than we can prove. And string theory gives you a radically different interpretation of the universe.

I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!