"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."

"Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage."

"We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning."

"I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals."

"While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner."

"There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science."

"I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors."

"I'm from the Midwest, and I loved my family. I had a very good time as a child, but I was also - I have a theory about Jews growing up in the Midwest, that there is an ultimately sort of wonderful avoidance of a lot of things, and a great acceptance of whatever is happening."