"Europe, which gave us the idea of same-sex marriage, is a dying society, with birthrates 50 percent below replacement."

"Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all."

"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites instead it fragments."

"I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be."

"My mom would give me a piece to play, but I wouldn't do any theory because when it came time to do it I would sneak back upstairs and watch TV. So, I had these kind of nonchalant lessons for years, then it just started soaking in."

"The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism."

"Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors."

"In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."